Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7

Plantation 144

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 144

The Farmers Daughter USA

JUNE 12, 2023

Although most of us imagine that it has something to do with swapping plastic straws for paper straw, it’s something that goes much further. This diversification of income sources supports rural economies and helps farmers maintain their livelihoods. A Pressing Problem Plastic pollution is a major problem.

Straw 52

Straw Compost Manufacturing Ruralism 52

ATTRA

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Voices of farm workers, young people in shorts and muck boots and wide brimmed straw hats drift across the fields. I see myriad varieties of vegetable crops one after the other in planned succession–seedlings and vegetative and fruiting–and I can smell the musty earthiness of the compost pile in the center of the field plots.

Farming 40

Farming Farming Meadow Compost 40