The Natural Farmer

Winter 2021
Forestry

Image Credit: Winter Barn by E. Gabriel, NY

Save Our Trees to Save Ourselves

BY STEPHEN LESLIE For any generation, it can be difficult to imagine that the world of the past was so radically different than the...

Lessons From the Land: Resilience

BY MARIA MERLINO A Mother’s Love Farming has helped me heal and I’m so grateful for it, so I thought I’d share some words about it. I...

Young Farmers Struggle with Child Care and Health Insurance

and that can threaten the future of family farms BY SHOSHANAH INWOOD, ANDREA RISSING, AND FLORENCE BECOT Kat Becker feeds hundreds of...

Farming & Parenting

BY ELIZABETH GABRIEL Kelli and Mike Roberts started Roots Farm in 2009 in Tiverton RI, a certified organic diversified vegetable farm...

The Hills Are (Too) Alive: Lymantria Among Us

BY JACK BRADIGAN SPULA Back in the early 1990s, standing in my small Allegany County woodlot, I was ordered into the trenches. Only three...

A New Farmer-Led Seed Company Inspired by Pollinator Pathways and CT NOFA’s Ecotype Project

BY DINA BREWSTER Announcing Eco59: a new Connecticut farmer-led seed company inspired by Pollinator Pathways and CT NOFA’s Ecotype...