By Crytal Stewart-Courtens As we prepare to welcome another garlic crop, let’s mentally walk through its spring and summer months and...

By Elizabeth Schuster and Michelle Klieger The COVID-19 pandemic was a tremendous disruption for many small farms. Unfortunately, these...

By Robert Kurth I am in love. I am in love with two soil scientists, Christine Jones and Nicole Masters. These women from down-under make...

Over the weekend, I was honored to attend the wedding of one of our area's most respected organic farmers.  Wearing a summer dress and,...

by Anita Ashok Adalja to make a living for ourselves and our hired crew and to provide food to a country that is paying much less than...

By Shani Mink The Jewish High Holidays are a very special time for my family. It’s a yearly reset – we pray, eat, don’t eat, gossip, ask...

By Cindy Hahamovitch In 2021, a multi-agency sting called Operation Blooming Onion netted two dozen alleged “human traffickers” who were...

By Elizabeth Henderson During the month of February, the Farmworker Association of Florida members, low-income Latinx workers, many of...

By Lily Massee Lisa Marchetti’s life as a farmer has been nothing short of nomadic. Over the past decade, she has worked on ten different...

By Karina Lutz Volunteers working on small organic farms are so common they deeply impact farm economics. Many farmers I know, all I've...

By Míchi López Take a second to close your eyes and picture the answer to the following question: where does our food come from? It may...

By Al Johnson We might agree on the definition of a “farmworker,” but defining a “Farmer” is more complicated. Does a farmer own and work...

By Xochitl Antziri and Elizabeth Henderson Against all odds, undocumented farmworkers on conventional dairy farms in Western NY have...

By Elizabeth Henderson Like many TNF readers, I chose to become an organic farmer because I enjoy farmwork. When people asked me and my...

By Mary Jo Dudley Immigration reform is a priority among farmworkers in New York State, yet current legislative proposals offer a complex...

By Jahdea Clare The H2A farm worker program has been running for decades to fill American farms' labor gaps and shortages. Growing up in...

By Alex Baten Spanish submission is translated below. My name is Alexander Baten. I am from Guatemala, originally from Totonicapán (a...

reviewed by Alberto del Castillo Troncoso From the Afterword: A journey through images By Alberto del Castillo Troncoso. The book is...

What Materials Qualify for Use in Organic Production? The Role of OMRI Editorial note: Soon after the National Organic Program launched...

By George Naylor Life becomes more precarious day by day because of multinational monopolies’ priorities for cheap labor and raw...