News Archives - Modern Farmer
A Buffalo Renaissance

Last summer, members of the InterTribal Buffalo Council (ITBC), a Native non-profit group dedicated to... (more)

Naoki Nitta
April 26, 2024
Preserving the Salt Ponds of Hanapēpē

Kuuleialoha Gaisoa determines whether a person is worthy of receiving her Hawaiian pa‘akai, or salt,... (more)

Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton
April 11, 2024
Bringing Back the Bighorn

From our vantage point in a motorboat on the reservoir known as Franklin D. Roosevelt... (more)

Rico Moore, YES! Magazine
December 18, 2023
Meet the Modern Farming Consultant Sharing Ancient Culture and Traditions in Alaska

Gifting your first catch, whether a moose, a deer or berries, is a Tlingit tradition. ... (more)

Jill Dutton
October 27, 2023
The American Chestnut Tree is Coming Back. Who is It For?

When Neil Patterson Jr. was about 7 or 8 years old, he saw a painting... (more)

Maya L. Kapoor, Grist
September 15, 2023
These Lost Crops Were a Likely Staple Food in Indigenous North America

A group of researchers has unearthed a piece of agricultural history that shows a pair... (more)

Lindsay Campbell
January 4, 2020
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