by Elizabeth Henderson, guest editor In this issue of TNF, we focus on concentration in the food system. As the cover image chart shows,...

BY PHIL HOWARD As you know, there's a tendency in many industries to move away from markets characterized by many small firms towards...

BY MICHAEL SLIGH Farmers’ Rights in the international area is used as shorthand for the hard-fought rights to save, share and sell seeds...

by George Naylor Once again, so many groups are focused on the “Farm Bill”, the key piece of legislation that could possibly put some...

BY EDITH COUCHMAN There is a general consensus among informed observers that industrialized, large-scale, corporate interests have...

By Grace Oedel, NOFA-VT Executive Director This article was originally printed in VT Digger on August 28, 2022. I belong to a local CSA...

By Laura Edwards-Orr The Opportunity “Good Food Purchasing is an idea whose time has come, and many different entities in our community -...

By ED MALTBY In August 2021, Danone North America, which owns the organic dairy brand Horizon Organic, notified 89 organic dairy farm...

Interview with Chuck Blood by Elizabeth Henderson Q. Tell us a little about your farming Chuck: My partner Mary and I moved to Rocky Tops...

By CHRIS HARTMAN Economies of collaboration can compete with economies of scale. That theme, first introduced to me at a National Good...

Findings from a Three-Year Study of Northeast Farmers Utilizing Alternative Tillage Systems BY CHRISTINE MANUCK In 2019, the NOFA...

By j.p. MUHLY "According to traditional thought, if we fail to organize all aspects of our lives, including our work to make positive or...

BY EMILY REISS Farmer Ground Flour (FGF) is an organic, regional, flour mill in Trumansburg, New York. Its power is more than just...

BY PETRA PAGE-MANN (inspired by ongoing conversations with Maddie Halpert, Matthew Goldfarb among many other curious humxns) In my...

BY LINCOLN FISHMAN Sawyer Farm is in the Hilltowns of Western Massachusetts. We've been farming here since 2010. In the early years, an...