Mark Shepard didn’t set out to be a farmer, let alone a visionary one. Yet,... (more)

We are crouched on our hands and knees, ripping out lettuce at Andrew’s Farm in... (more)

“Virtually all of the products I buy on the regular have experienced some degree of... (more)

In 2008, Jessica Eikleberry was 29 years old and had just read Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s... (more)

Since the back-to-the-land movement of the ’60s, many dedicated land workers have championed the hard... (more)

When Chelsea Wood was a child, she would often collect Periwinkle snails on the shores... (more)

In part one and part two of our series on transitioning out of factory farming,... (more)

When Paula and Dale Boles took over Dale’s father’s farmland in North Carolina, they thought... (more)

When Tanner Faaborg was growing up in Iowa, his family was fairly self-sufficient. But his... (more)