By Mary-Howell Martens Nearly 30 years ago, we were sitting down to a May Sunday breakfast when a pickup truck drove into the driveway....

By Johanna Jackson I was kneeling near rhubarb, pulling out thistles, when Gerald walked up. It was April 2020: pandemic week three. We...

By H.e. Haugenes I took an internship at a vegan animal sanctuary, thinking I could learn to raise animals in harmony with the land,...

By Emma Gonzalez Over the course of three seasons farming and all my years eating, I had never seen purple cauliflower. Apparently, the...

By Ben Goldberg A ruffed grouse began showing up at the job site. I'm doing renovations to a retreat cabin up in the hilly woods of...

By Steve Gabriel Our farm was first captured by the idea of tree fodder out of necessity. In 2016 our region of New York suffered a...

By Obiora Embry In March 2013 my life was changed for the better...I stepped onto the two acres of fallow grazing land to see in person...

By jason detzel Throughout most of the winter and early spring, I entertain a variety of phone calls requesting the use of some of my...

By Maddie Kempner, NOFA-VT Policy Director Vermont is on the cusp of becoming one of the first states in the nation to compensate farmers...

TNF is committed to bringing attention to and generating an increased awareness of issues of race and inequality and how these have...

The story of a carrot & how our imaginations seed the world By Petra Page-Mann Don’t judge a book by its cover… …as the proverb reminds...

by Elizabeth Gabriel TNF: Tell us a little about yourself and how you got into the work you do now Anita: I’ve been farming for 12 years,...

By JOSEPH R. HECKMAN, Ph.D. Fertilizers are expensive and the current supply is limited. Farmers interested in sustainability are...

by Steve Gilman As a coda to the obituary for Samuel Kaymen, I feel so grateful that our Founder was with us for last year’s 50th...

By Kevin Cody and Olivia Richards “I probably would have started my own farm business without New Entry, but certainly not when I did....

By Chris Brown, Development Director at ALBA, chris@albafarmers.org Since 1950, more than a quarter-billion acres of farmland were lost...