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Daily Yonder
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Brooks Lamb: I grew up on a small farm in rural Tennessee. The land has been in our family since 1892, but the ownership hasn’t exactly been “linear.” I should mention that our farm was, and still is, a family farm in the strongest sense.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. Patrick currently operates Brown Family Farms on the land that Byron worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.
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Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Tucker Gretebeck planting trees on All Season Farm. In addition to organic practices including composting and perennial cover crops, he added a silvopasture for his grass-fed cattle. Crombie is optimistic that agroforestry will go a long way in restoring land but also rural communities.
Caff
JUNE 6, 2023
Together, last spring we visited both rural and urban farms like Kern Family Farm in the Sierra Foothills, and Red H Farm and Singing Frogs Farm in the North Bay. Project collaborators Sara Tiffany (left) and Cole Rainey (right) partition soil samples by depth at Singing Frogs Farm.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
DECEMBER 15, 2023
At Fifth Crow Farm, she has obtained NRCS funding to plant native hedgerows which she intends, “to provide habitat and travel corridors for beneficial insects and pollinators.” She also employs cover crops, composting, and reduced tillage. The farm is profiled along with other conservation-minded farmers here.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 11, 2023
On a sunny afternoon in September 2021, Michael Langford was moving compost with his compact John Deere. The front bucket was half full as he drove the tractor forward on a gentle slope of his 10-acre produce and poultry farm in Greensboro, Georgia. Suddenly, the 53-year-old felt a tire slip under him. “I There were a lot of comments.
Caff
JANUARY 25, 2023
By partnering with local and state organizations, he’s made his operation a key part of emergency food distribution programs reaching schools, families, and organizations in Tulare County with culturally appropriate food especially for rural regions comprised of farmworkers and other immigrant and under-served communities.
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