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The Commons: A Story of Reworking an Old Idea for Next-Generation Farmers
One of humanity’s oldest ideas about land is helping new farmers who can’t afford to buy in — so why is it being undercut by the USDA?
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Featured in YES! Magazine: For a Cooler Climate, Focus on Food and Agriculture
Originally published by YES! Magazine The global food system is responsible for more emissions than previously thought, according to a new United Nations report. It may also hold a key to reversing climate change. Agriculture as usual is putting the climate at risk as “unprecedented rates” of land and freshwater resources are used to fuel
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Featured in Resilience: Earthseed Land Collective
Originally published by Agrarian Trust and Resilience Planting the Seeds The Earthseed Land Collective was formally established in 2012 by a group of black and brown farmers and social justice organizers. All in their 30s and early 40s at the time of its founding, the group currently includes seven founding members. Over the past decade,
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The Future of Farming is Open Source
Originally published in MAKE: Farmers are innovators, which is a nice way of saying that they really like to tinker with things. They were hacking complicated machines and developing new technologies long before server farms sprouted up and cloud computing reigned. Despite the fact that some farmers in the US began using satellites to help