Modern Farmer
APRIL 8, 2024
Situated in Olympia, Washington along the shores of Puget Sound, the fertile land and waterfront views make the farm an ideal spot. Without farmland to grow crops or ranchland for livestock, we don’t eat. Conserving farmland underpins a stable local food supply. But real estate developers can afford it.
Modern Farmer
OCTOBER 19, 2023
government actions directly or indirectly led its farmland to pass into non-Native hands— mostly white farmers. In the past five years, three Nebraska tribes—the Winnebago, the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska and the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska—have bought a combined 3,000-odd acres of farmland that was once theirs.
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Daily Yonder
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Brooks Lamb is a writer, and the land protection and access specialist at American Farmland Trust. Since we had land—and we also had a good relationship with the local Farmer’s Cooperative, which generously donated seeds, plants, and fertilizer—a garden felt like a good way to support the community.
Civil Eats
OCTOBER 24, 2023
After six years of enriching the soil and cultivating neighborly relationships, however, We Grow Farms is up against an insurmountable challenge facing many farms and pastures across the state: the real estate market. Together, BIPOC growers own less than 2 percent of all farmland in the country.
The Equation
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
In doing research on this piece, I got a sponsored ad link on Google pointing me to resources for how to force the sale of real estate in my state of Florida. Small and midsize farmers often farm more sustainably than industrial operations by avoiding monocropping and high fertilizer inputs, while serving local communities.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
MAY 10, 2024
This new program offers guaranteed loans to finance real estate and infrastructure investments and provide working capital for commercial supply chain development. However, the inclusion of “precision irrigation and fertilization” broadly as an example of practices that may be eligible for a discount is concerning.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
JUNE 25, 2024
The Everglades Foundation was formed in the 1990s by two wealthy fishing buddies—billionaire Paul Tudor Jones II and an Orlando real estate developer named George Barley. You’re unlikely to come up with the domain of Big Sugar: the Everglades Agricultural Area, that 700,000-acre swath of farmland just south of Lake Okeechobee.
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