Agriculture was once a cornerstone of the American way of life. Farmers helped build the country, and most of us depended on their products for the food we eat. But times have changed. Americans now ...
Mary Oxendine grew up in Robeson County, NC, among the Lumbee people. As a child of multigenerational farmers, she grew up picking peas and butterbeans, working with her grandmother making sausages, ...
This story originally appeared at Ambrook Research. Twice a growing season, a big yellow truck with the license plate “P4FARMS” pulls into Jesse Kayan’s farm in Brattleboro, Vermont, loaded with a ...
Farming has come a long way in the last few years. We know, from the last census of agriculture, that farm life is changing. The number of farms is dropping, while the size of the average farm is ...