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Photo Essay: Standing in the Gaps With Feed Durham

Civil Eats

Historically, mutual aid has worked best amongst rural people living in geographic isolation and with a shared spiritual practice for at least one generation, and people with shared identities who have been cast out from the mainstream.

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Can Virtual Fences Help More Ranchers Adopt Regenerative Grazing Practices?

Civil Eats

This herd, however, is not quite as free-range as it appears. Given how few farms are using it, there are still many questions about limitations—like the absence of cell service in some rural areas, farmer acceptance , accuracy, and ongoing costs —but buzz about virtual fencing’s applications continues to grow.

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Share’s Home Delivery Program Grew 300% in 2022

Share Food Program

There are so many more people we can reach now that would not have been possible to reach before—we’ve even made home delivery work in rural areas like Chester County. Through building partnerships and adding new staff to the program at Share, we’ve been able to deliver to more than 3,500 people per month.

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Young Farmers joins American Farmland Trust, Farm Aid, and Climate Mental Health Network for discussion on Farmer Mental Health in a Changing Climate

National Young Farmers Coalition

The “Free Range Conversation®” aimed to bring attention to the emotional well-being of the farmers and service providers in our ecosystem, and how they have been, and continue to be, impacted by the climate crisis.

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What a Trump or Harris Presidency Will Mean for Farmers and Eaters

Modern Farmer

As attorney general in California, she appealed a federal ruling that nixed California’s foie gras ban , and defended California’s law requiring humane, free-range facilities at egg farms. The notoriously unwieldy farm bill typically pairs policies backed by red-leaning rural farming communities (i.e.,

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