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Kenya’s Best and Only Reality Show for Struggling Farms

Shamba Shape Up is a wildly popular reality show, with upwards of 10 million weekly viewers across Africa. Each week, two hosts cheerily descend on a struggling farm. They look for...

by Jesse Hirsch
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Farming a Future for Veterans

The military taught Evan Premer not to waste time fixing a problem. So he’s been quick to start up his own high-tech farm operation in Denver.

by Sam Brasch
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Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: The True Cost of our Produce

Today’s pickers – migrant farm workers picking produce across the country – are Mexican immigrants, many of them indigenous peoples. Author Seth M. Holmes spent years with these peoples while working on his book.

by Gloria Dawson
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Red Farm Propaganda

One of our favorite posts to-date was the roundup of vintage WWII Victory Garden posters. Today we decided to dive into some farm propaganda from a different side of the political spectrum.

by Jesse Hirsch and Tom Wolf
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Has Industrial Meat Changed?

Chances are if you learned about gestation crates or antibiotic use in industrially raised animals in the past few years, you have Robert Martin to thank in some way. Martin was th...

by Gloria Dawson
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Hope and Hardship: The Life of a First Time Farmer

Many urbanites think of leaving the city and starting a farm, and a growing number do. Photographer Whitney Light spend a year following a couple who left their jobs for the dirty life of the farm and a dream of sustainable agriculture.

by Whitney Light
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What Maine Can Teach the Rest of the Country About Farming

Forget Stephen King and lobster rolls. The really impressive thing about Maine? Farms are being started at a rate nearly four times faster than the national average and it boasts one of the highest organic-to-conventional-farm ratios in the United States.

by Tom Wolf
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Pigweed in the Cotton: A ‘Superweed’ Invades Georgia

Stanley Culpepper has spent most of the last decade fighting a monster.

by Andre Gallant
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The Brides Love the Barns: A Q&A with I Love Farm Weddings

It was only a matter of time before brides and barns got together. It seems like every wedding season seems to include at lease one farm-based fete invite, doesn’t it?

by Gloria Dawson
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