Ecologist Jonathan Lundgren launched the 1,000 Farms Initiative to compare regenerative and conventional farming. The data is ...

As midterms approach, West Virginia residents describe the impact of the past two years of the Trump administration on the ...

The Trump administration has called drops in federal food assistance enrollment good news. Access advocates and recipients ...

Conservation efforts like this one in Chicago can help prevent the loss of land that is currently stymying small farming.

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How the daughter of author Wendell Berry and executive director of the Berry Center advocates for agrarian ideals.

October 21, 2026 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a proposed rule on Wednesday aimed at protecting recipients of federal food assistance from benefit theft, but without federal ...

After a scramble to replace lost federal dollars, farmers Tim and Rebecca Cooper are now confronting high input prices, and a growing number of people seeking to make ends meet.

West Virginia has some of the highest rates of food insecurity and chronic disease in the nation, and state officials there were early supporters of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda. We ...

Dara Cooper is the co-founder and senior advisor for the National Black Food and Justice Alliance, HEAL Food Alliance, and LIFE Resource Collaborative. Contributors include: Cicely Garrett (NBFJA), Dr ...

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From a distance, a utility-scale solar site can look well managed, with a perimeter fence around neat rows of panels and a vegetation buffer along the road. But look more closely and the land tells a ...