A New Generation of Farmers Rents to Cope With Soaring American Cropland Prices
The number of US tenant farmers age 25 to 44 has climbed 9 percent since 2007.
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Fighting Bugs with Bugs
A new organic farming technique uses native plants to attract critters that eat harmful insects.
Community Gathers Around Racial Justice in the Food Movement
“Yes to your donation. Yes to your food drive. Yes to your half-eaten sandwich on top of the garbage can and not in it. But yes, to something more too. Yes to showing up in the world looking like somebody who is going to help!” — Marvin White. Full text here. Over 150 people came…
Race and Food Justice on the Menu at Berkeley Event
A Berkeley forum tackles the legacy of slavery on African-Americans’ relationship with food production, food insecurity, and the whiteness of the food justice movement, among many other topics.
We Need Young Farmers, and Colleges Can Help
The documentary Occupy the Farm shows the positive impact universities could have if they leveraged their resources to create more farms and farmers.
For Farmers, This Land is Often Someone Else’s
Small-scale and beginning farmers are most likely renters on the land they farm. Their owner is ultimately the one who shapes the form of agriculture while farmers, as tenants, operate with reduced autonomy.