Young Farmers

william padilla-brown holding a bag of reishi mushrooms

Bringing Mushroom Cultivation to the People

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07.18.19

Sunflowers and luffa vines — related to cucumber, gourd and squash — are tended by a Community Roots participant and mentor in a Brooklyn school community garden with their instructor (right). (Photo by Pieranna Pieroni)

A NYC Urban Garden Teaches Youth Community and Justice

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07.17.19

young farmer tending to his flock of sheep

Despite Many Challenges, the U.S. Has More Young Farmers Than it Did Five Years Ago

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04.12.19

Participants of Soul Fire Farm’s training program transplant pepper seedlings. Photo by Neshima Vitale-Penniman.

By Reconnecting With Soil, We Heal the Planet and Ourselves

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02.18.19

Rev. Floyd D. Harris Jr. harvests cabbage from Freedom School Fresno’s demonstration farm. (Photo © Joan Cusick)

Fresno’s Freedom School is Changing the Narrative on Farming for Black Youth

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02.13.19

Kate Greenberg, Colorado Department of Agriculture Commissioner

Meet Kate Greenberg, Colorado’s New Commissioner of Agriculture

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02.11.19

saafon black farmers support organization

SAAFON Works to Restore Land Justice for Black Farmers in the South

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01.21.19

Roy Reid (center) working with service learning students at the CSUF garden. (Photo credit: Sara Johnson)

A Farm and Restaurant Program that Helps Foster Kids Succeed

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01.15.19

A farmer with his dairy cows. Photo courtesy of American Farmland Trust.

Has New York Found the Secret to Linking Retiring Farmers and Eager Upstarts?

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01.08.19

three generations of farmers at meadowlark organics

Three Generations, Two Families, and One Organic Farm Model Succession

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12.19.18

Floor-malting the wheat at Blue Ox Malthouse.

Maine Is Scaling Up its Local Grain Economy

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11.26.18

tractors driving across a large consolidated farm field

For a New Generation of Farmers, Accessing Land is the First Step Toward Tackling Consolidation

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11.20.18

leah penniman and book cover

‘Farming While Black’ is a Guidebook to Dismantle Systemic Racism

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11.02.18

Harvesting in pairs at Intervale Community Farm. (Photo credit: Brian Shevrin)

The Co-op Farming Model Might Help Save America’s Small Farms

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10.03.18

nikiko on her family farm. Photo by Gosia Wozniacka

Returning to My Family Farm is About More Than Succession. It’s About Story.

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09.17.18

Participants at a Truelove Seeds seed-keeping workshop at Taqwa Community Farm in the Bronx. (Photo courtesy of Truelove Seeds)

Truelove Seeds Offers a Connection to Culinary Heritage and Food Justice

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08.27.18

anthony reyes in the garden

Anthony Reyes: Building Dignity for the Homeless Through Farming

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07.27.18

Young and Beginning Farmers: Don’t Abandon Us in the Farm Bill

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06.25.18