Joe Heil has been farming ginseng in rural Central Wisconsin for 25 years. He is the owner of Heil Ginseng…
Like a lot of people, Karla Ortiz thought the 2020 election would be different. As the Iowa Regional Organizing Director…
After graduating from high school in 1987, Tim Brandt started raising hogs on his family’s Ohio farm. Housed in barns…
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Elsie Herring spends many days documenting and responding to complaints from her neighbors—about everything from the stench coming off of…
On a recent Saturday night in September, Mildred Braxton did something she never thought she’d do: she taught 20 or…
In addition to math and reading lessons, many third graders in Alabama’s low-income communities learn about nutrition from animated characters…
This time last year, Tyrone Gustafson's small Iowa slaughterhouse and butchering facility, Story City Locker, was operating at about 80…
The most delicious vegetables are the ones you grow yourself, as many have come to realize during the pandemic. But…
At Bang Brewing in St. Paul, Minnesota, co-owner Sandy Boss Febbo keeps an 18-foot-long poster on the wall with photos…
Director Sanjay Rawal is the first to admit that he, the First Nations Development Institute, and the half dozen Indigenous-led…
On September 12, Iverson Family Farms posted ominous images on social media of their fields under a ruddy red sky,…
Today, on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we celebrate and honor the original Americans. To be Indigenous means to be inextricably intertwined…
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams still remembers the terror he felt when he woke up four years ago and couldn’t…
Wildfires are raging all along the west. Hurricanes in the east. Snow quickly followed a heat wave in the middle…
Like nearly every other region of the U.S., the Minneapolis-St. Paul area was grappling with food insecurity in the spring…
Even before the pandemic hit, many food-insecure Americans were forced to make difficult decisions. Some gave up some meals so…
A few weeks ago, Natasha Paris took part in a community pasture walk. Paris is a farmer and high school…