Two weeks ago, I wrote about the 2023 farm bill, which stands to be reauthorized by Congress this fall. The bill, I argued, amounts to unnecessary corporate welfare for large industrial farms who do ...

Lindsey Shaklee says gleaning reminds her of the cooperation between humans and nature. The proximity of the winter makes her reflect that as productive as we can be, we also have to find time to ...

Cold Current Kelp co-owner Krista Rosen holds up an example of wild sugar kelp that has grown on the company’s previously planted line in Kittery, Maine, on Dec. 15, 2024. Early on a freezing Sunday ...

COWS TO THE COMMUNITY. I EVEN SOMETIMES GET LOST WHEN MY DAD’S TELLING STORIES. HE REMEMBERS MILK AND COWS UP THERE BEFORE SCHOOL. SAM STABLER IS A FIFTH GENERATION FARMER AT WHITTIER FARMS IN SUTTON, ...

WORRIED ABOUT THE CUTBACKS HAPPENING AT THE USDA. THIS YEAR, THE PILE BACK THERE WITH THE GREEN ON TOP OF IT, THAT’S A SIX YEAR PILE. JAMES MINOOKA BOUGHT LEWIS FARM IN 2016, FOUR YEARS BEFORE THE ...

Guests attending The Big E‘s Farm-A-Rama running Sept. 12-28 will get to check out “an all-new urban farming exhibit,” according to organizers. “Harvesting Change: Urban Farming in New England ...

Originally built as barriers between fields and farms, the region’s abandoned farmstead walls have since become the binding threads of its cultural fabric Robert Thorson - Professor of Earth Sciences ...

On a crisp autumn morning earlier this week, around 40 volunteers walked through crops of bountiful apple trees at Kimball Fruit Farms, located at the New Hampshire-Massachusetts border. They gathered ...