Agricultural Law Program Accepting Applications
From University of Arkansas School of Law: For anyone who is interested in food and agricultural law course work or an advanced law degree in agricultural & food law – […]
Credit Unions Investing in Maine Farmers
A story, published in the Bangor Daily News looks at how financiers are beginning to focus on small farmers. From the article by Darren Fishell: The 100-acre organic farm that […]
A New Voice for the Land
Martin Adams is a new voice for the land, and a revivalist of the historical context for the way we think about land issues. His new book, Land: A New […]
Featured Resource: LandPortal
From the LandPortal website: The Portal allows for the collection, sourcing, and searching of otherwise fragmented and inaccessible data and information on land governance and land use from diverse sources, […]
Sharecropping Awareness Week
Watch this film about the folks that farm the land for no or reduced rent, then owe (some of) their product to the land owner. A good idea? Does it […]
A model to model: Terre de Liens
We’ve mentioned Terre de Liens a lot in the past. The structure of a shared commons used for agriculture is one we hope to replicate, and we have a group […]
Definition: Reserved Life Estate
Definition: Reserved Life Estate From ConservationTools.org The ownership of real estate can be divided into present and future interests. This division enables a landowner to convey land to a land […]
The Commons are Making a Comeback
The land has not always been owned, or able to be owned, and it is not just in recent history that citizens have rebelled against the very idea of land […]
A Farmer Needs a Law Degree
Farmers are not lawyers, and why should we be? We have enough on our plate running a small business, tending the fields, defending small-scale agriculture. Sometimes it feel like we […]
Death of a Family Farm
The transition to the next generation doesn’t always go smoothly, even when there is a chance for keeping it in the family. Kristina Johnson profiles this side of the farm […]