How One Boston Hospital Is Feeding Patients Through Its Rooftop Farm
Food is medicine at Boston Medical Center.
There Are More Women Farmers Than Ever, But They Make Less Than Men. Why?
The number of female farmers is up by 27 percent in the past five years.
This Farm on Wheels Provides Local, Eco-conscious Products at Every Income Level
It’s a rolling sliding-scale grocer.
Fewer Eligible Immigrant Families Are Using SNAP
It’s easy to look at political bluster and judge it as such—just talk.
Driving through rural northwest Ohio, the first thing you notice is how flat it is — flat as a griddle cake, with narrow roads slicing through endless fields of soybeans and corn.
Putting Down Roots: The Refugee Gardens of Clarkston, Georgia
Today, a third of town’s 13,000 residents were born in another country, representing 40 nationalities and 60 languages.
For new Americans displaced by conflict and ethnic strife, the ability to raise goats lifts them up, providing sorely needed cultural continuity and a taste of the old country.
Leah Penniman is an American anomaly: black, female, and a farmer. In 2016, Penniman hit the streets of Albany, New York, to protest the police brutality that killed Donald “Dontay” Ivy, 39, an unarmed local man. But her primary focus involves fighting what she considers a far more common, yet more subtly brutal, form of oppression. “Corporations, and white folks in particular, control the food system,” explains the 37-year-old. “If the means of production are in the hands of people outside our community, we are dependent on those who might not have our best interests in mind.”
