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These Nebraska Tribes Are Buying Back Farmland and Attempting to Reverse History

Modern Farmer

He’s here, on this 100-degree August day, to show high school and college students—the future of the Winnebago Tribe—how Ho-Chunk Farms, the tribe’s farming company, is changing the face of agriculture on their reservation. The tribe only owns roughly 27,000 acres of its 120,000-acre reservation, after U.S. Ho-Chunk Inc.

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Holding onto Farmland, One Land Trust at a Time

Modern Farmer

Nate Lewis and Melissa Barker knew that Oyster Bay Farm was for them. “It Situated in Olympia, Washington along the shores of Puget Sound, the fertile land and waterfront views make the farm an ideal spot. But real estate developers can afford it. It ticked all the boxes,” says Lewis. But this can be a mixed bag.

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Congress Puts Federal Support for Urban Farming on the Chopping Block

Civil Eats

Spivey, Zama, and Flores operate three of 10 different farm businesses at the Urban Farm Incubator at Watkins Regional Park in Prince George’s County, Maryland, located just outside of Washington, D.C. While lawmakers authorized $25 million annually in the 2018 Farm Bill, Congress must reallocate the money each year.

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Cultivating Profits in a Compact Crop

Modern Farmer

Basements and garages have long been fertile ground for innovation, with a host of well-known companies including Apple, Amazon and Harley-Davidson tracing back to humble residential roots. Given the cost of Long Island real estate, the space efficiency is “one of the great benefits of [farming] microgreens,” says DiLillo.

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Q&A: Why Do Small-Scale Farmers Persist in Place?

Daily Yonder

He grew up on a small farm in Marshall County, Tennessee, and lives in Memphis now. Enjoy our conversation about Wendell Berry, the fall of tobacco, and “right-sized” farming, below. Brooks Lamb on his family’s farm. Brooks Lamb: I grew up on a small farm in rural Tennessee. We always had a big garden.

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The American Chestnut Tree is Coming Back. Who is It For?

Modern Farmer

Meanwhile, settlers cut down chestnuts for many reasons — to clear space for towns and farms; to build fence posts, telegraph poles, and railroads; or just to gather the nuts more easily. This particular case centered around whether tribes had to pay local and state taxes on ancestral land that they bought back on the real estate market.

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California Will Help BIPOC Collective Cultivate Land Access for Underserved Farmers

Civil Eats

Surrounded by low-income apartments, senior housing, and the cheerful hum of an elementary school playground, We Grow Farms is an unlikely yet central landmark in West Sacramento. Just a few miles from California’s state capital, owner Nelson Hawkins has turned an abandoned half-acre lot into a hub of food production for the community.