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The Grazing Expert Helping Farmers Build Resilient Ecosystems
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The Godfather of California Organics is Optimistic About the Future of Food
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Planting the Seeds of Indigenous Food Sovereignty
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Young Women are Reviving Indigenous Food Traditions Online
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Dolores Huerta is Still Fighting for Farmworkers’ Rights
Dolores Huerta is having a bit of a celebrity moment. It began in 2012, when President Obama gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom award for coining the slogan “Sí, Se Puede,” an early predecessor...
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Wendell Berry is the Quiet Narrator of this New Documentary
Over a decade ago, while filmmaker Laura Dunn was making her first feature documentary, “The Unforeseen,” farmer and poet Wendell Berry graciously invited her into his Henry County, Kentucky home so...
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Portland Teens Create Cookbook to Save Orphaned Chimps
When Brooke Abbruzzese was in sixth grade, she had no idea what to expect when she wrote First Lady Michelle Obama to ask for her favorite vegetarian recipe—or if she’d even get a response. But a month...
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Raising Awareness About Mass Incarceration Over Dinner
It’s about an hour before dinner service, and Kurt Evans is working on an appetizer. This dish doesn’t require mincing, chopping, searing, or slicing—in fact, it has only three ingredients, and most...
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The Grazing Expert Helping Farmers Build Resilient Ecosystems
Vermont-based livestock grazing consultant Sarah Flack remembers being captivated by insects crawling in the soil when she was a child staying in a tent in Kenya. She remembers watching sheep graze...
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The Godfather of California Organics is Optimistic About the Future of Food
If you’re a farm nerd like me, Warren Weber is something of a rock star. Weber, now 77 and semi-retired after decades of organic farming in California, doesn’t remember me fawning over him more than 15...
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Planting the Seeds of Indigenous Food Sovereignty
“I want to stress that we have no idea what we are doing.” So says ‘Cúagilákv Jessie Housty, a self-described “community agitator, mother, land-based educator, indigenist, [and] unapologetically...
View Article‘Farming While Black’ is a Guidebook to Dismantle Systemic Racism
At first, Leah Penniman’s new book, Farming While Black, reads like any other aimed at new farmers. In it, she writes about finding land, crop planning, seed saving, and raising animals. When readers...
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Young Women are Reviving Indigenous Food Traditions Online
Andi Murphy made her first online instructional cooking video after noticing that people in her New Mexico community had been given wild rice—an ingredient that’s indigenous to the Upper Midwest—as...
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The Personal Storytelling That is Putting a Human Face on the Food Movement
On a summer evening at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum, Pei-Ru Ko sat onstage with a small group of women, telling a story about a birthday cake. Growing up in Taiwan, birthday cakes were not the...
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