Farming Community

Organic farm wins $1 million in damages against neighboring farm for pesticide contamination

Jacobs Farm in Santa Cruz, CA won a suit filed in May 2007 against nearby Western Farm Service for pesticide damage to the farm.

Crumbling barns signal tumultuous change in Iowa

Barns collapsing from disrepair reveal that the social and agricultural landscape of Iowa has changed drastically over the past half century.

United States farmers get a taste of migrant life

As the demographics of the heartland change – populations decline and dairy farms expand – farmers who increasingly rely on a migrant Mexican labor force feel the culture shock endemic to Texas and California decades ago.

United States farmers get a taste of migrant life

As the demographics of the heartland change – populations decline and dairy farms expand – farmers who increasingly rely on a migrant Mexican labor force feel the culture shock endemic to Texas and California decades ago.

The Davis Farmers' Market, thirty years on

One of the original producer-only markets in California shows how it's done

DeVault to head Seed Savers Exchange

Longtime New Farm editor George DeVault has accepted the position as president and executive director of the nonprofit Seed Savers Exchange in Decorah, Iowa, an organization dedicated to the preservation of heirloom varieties of vegetables, fruits, flowers and herbs and agricultural biodiversity in general.

Looking for the post-tobacco king of Kentucky agriculture

 

County councils can re-localize Kentucky's food system by directing tobacco settlement funds to help family farms

By Pernell Plath

You want to do what? Farming?

PASA video provides excellent window into the lives of innovative, entrepreneurial farmers who connect to customers through direct marketing.

Forty-five minutes north of Chicago, the people at Prairie Crossing are redefining the suburban housing development to include ecological restoration, green building technologies, and small-scale organic farming

By Laura Sayre

Striving for Social Sustainability in Agriculture

Organic farming endeavors to improve the health of the consumer and the environment, but what about the farm worker?

By David Kupfer

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