At Modern Farmer, we believe that food is a right. More specifically, access to nutritious, locally-grown food, is a right. Unfortunately, not everyone has access (or enough access) to food. But our food systems don’t have to look they way they currently do. We don’t have to accept the status quo. We can rise, as a community, and demand equal access...
Huberto Juan Martinez (54) is not at home when we stop in front of his house in Cerro Armadillo Grande. “He is working on the plantation,” his wife announces. Huberto and his younger son are inspecting the plants that ensure the family’s livelihood. With their machetes in hand, they clear away any unwanted flora encroaching on their plot. As we stroll...
Located on the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay sits Alameda County, where Dig Deep Farms’ two farm sites grow rows and rows of fresh food. Dig Deep Farms is a Black-led and BIPOC nonprofit organic farming operation that serves the community with its harvests and its commitment to providing economically viable jobs and careers in farming. “Farming...
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Helene and Milton, the two massive hurricanes that just swept into the country — killing hundreds of people, and leaving both devastation and rumblings of political upheaval in seven states — amounted to their own October surprise. Not that the storms led to some...
When Briana Bosch started her Colorado flower farm, Blossom and Branch, the fifth-generation farmer—her family had a dairy and corn farm—mimicked what her family had always done: plastic landscape fabric to control weeds, plastic seedling trays, plastic netting, even plastic irrigation tubing. It wasn’t long before she grew disenchanted with the amount...
In 2016, Carla Harward’s daughter, Sophie, came home from her middle school in Chattooga County and told her mother about two students who hadn’t eaten over the weekend. “I was stunned,” says Harward. “Sophie said the little boys were crying because their bellies hurt. We just had no idea there were kids in our community that were hungry.” Harward...
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