From Foreign Service to Chief Veggie Officer
Mary Ackley always had a passion for natural sciences and the environment, but for a long time, she didn’t think she could make a living from farming. The former engineer was never quite satisfied with...
View ArticleHow Two Urban Farmers Got Their Start Leveraging Backyard Space
In 2015, Madeleine Maltby began knocking on neighborhood doors in Canada’s capital city, Ottawa, with a simple proposal. In exchange for a backyard, the residents would let her grow a garden full of...
View ArticleMeet the Modern Farmer: Jeanene Miller of Abundant Greens
There’s local, there’s hyperlocal, and then there’s Jeanene Miller. The fiber-artist-turned-farmer and owner of Abundant Greens Urban Farm and Nursery runs two community-supported agriculture (CSA)...
View ArticleYoung Agriculturalists, Take Note
When Matthew and Joe Brugger left their family’s farm for college, they didn’t know what the future would look like. The twin brothers loved farming, but the idea of going back to a traditional corn,...
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These Florida Farmers Are Giving Back
When Sean Hellein stepped into the world of farming, he knew he wanted to make an impact that went beyond selling a good product. Sean, who worked in finance before making the decision to start a...
View ArticleQ&A: Is Agriculture the Answer to Climate Change?
In the popular imagination, solutions to climate change are often boiled down to reducing fossil fuel use and investing in alternative energy. Some would add underground carbon storage schemes or...
View ArticleThis Farmer’s Childhood Passion Grew Into One of the Largest Aquaponics Farms...
Trevor Kenkel’s success in lettuce farming began with a 20-gallon fish tank and a couple of goldfish. As early as he was in the fourth grade, Kenkel was immersed in farming, managing his own organic...
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New Documentary ‘Farmsteaders’ Shows the Struggle Small Farms Face in America
Nick and Celeste Nolan have risked everything. A new documentary about the couple is set to premiere on PBS and provides an unvarnished look at the challenges of running a small farm. Filmed over five...
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This Canadian Worm Farm Turns Office Waste Into Plant Food
Unlike some worm farms, Jocelyn Molyneux’s operation doesn’t sell its worms for bait. At Wastenot Farms, more than a million earthworms have been put to work munching through compostable waste to...
View ArticleThis 92-Year-Old Farmer Wants You to Drink in Her Orchard
Carol Hillman would like to see her apple farm continue after she’s gone. The 92-year-old recently decided it was time to start a new dimension to New Salem Preserves and Orchards, which she started...
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‘Self-Feeding’ Corn Grows in Southern Appalachia
In 2003, Mike Fortune left a budding career as a stockbroker and moved to Asheville to start an urban farm. He eventually found a willing landowner on Greenhill Avenue, in the city’s west end, with a...
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Meet the Modern Farmer: Dulce Acevedo of La Calabacera
Located in the Atlantic Ocean, off the Sahara coast, the Canary Islands are a Spanish archipelago said to have the best climate in the world. Mild temperatures year-round, more than 3,000 hours of...
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Meet the Sustainable Poultry Company Taking On Big Ag
Cooks Venture’s goal is a lofty one: Change a monolithic industry and help reverse climate change using chickens. Cooks Venture is a pasture-raised heirloom-poultry company that has reimagined what a...
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London’s Urban Farms Move Underground
As London-born architect Carolyn Steel points out in her book Hungry City, “The relationship between food and cities is endlessly complex, but at one level it is utterly simple. Without farmers and...
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Rice Paddies Rise in the Hudson Valley
Nfamara Badjie’s parents taught him it’s much healthier to eat what you grow than food you can buy in a store. The Gambian farmer has brought his generational knowledge across the ocean and is now...
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This Wisconsin Economist Found Happiness Growing Mushrooms in His Basement
When Jerome Segura III leapt from the ivory tower of academia, he didn’t know what would be waiting for him when he hit the ground. The central Wisconsin resident quit his job as chief economist and...
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Transforming a Hawaiian Community Through Farming
Cheryse Kaui Sana often thinks about how different her life would have been if she hadn’t stumbled into farming. “I could have gotten a minimum-wage job or something and then who knows,” she says. “I...
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How An Indian Farming Organization Is Trying to Save the Forest
A couple of years ago, four friends gave up their comfortable jobs in Mumbai to form OOO Farms in the Sahyadri hills of western India. The foursome (made up of Shailesh Awate, Abhay Bhatia, Pranav...
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Meet the Modern Farmer: Sarah Hoffmann
Sarah Hoffmann always knew she would return to life on a farm. After practicing as an academic physician for almost 10 years, Hoffmann says she decided to make her long-time dream a reality in 1998...
View ArticleThis Farmer Wants to Return Our Bodies to the Land
Suzanne Kelly digs in when it comes to dirt. She reflects on the insects and microbes that cause the process of decay. She talks about how what we dismiss as “dirt” is actually soil whose fertility...
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