6-year-old Kendall Rae Johnson is making history as Georgia's youngest certified farmer.
You can always count on Kelis to be a trendsetter, whether in terms of hair, fashion, food, and now, farming.
(New York Times) — The half-dozen strangers who descended on this remote West African village brought its hand-to-mouth farmers alarming news: their humble fields, tilled from one generation to the next, were now controlled by Libya’s leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, and the farmers would all have to leave. “They told us this would be the last […]
They'd been fighting discriminatory lending in federal farm lending programs for years.
(Chicago Tribune) — Illinois is failing to crack down on water pollution from large confined-animal farms, the Obama administration announced Wednesday in a stinging rebuke that gave the state a month to figure out how to fix its troubled permitting and enforcement programs. Responding to a petition from environmental groups, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said its […]
(Chicago Tribune) — You can’t buy those on the street, Tim Ngabtak tells John Thill as he eyes mustard seed plants at the Tibet Farms stand. Intrigued, Thill, a Morton Grove village trustee, picks up the plant, smells it and takes a bite. “Boy, is that stuff tart. That snuck up on me,” he said. […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — Sunrise at Spence Farm in central Illinois, and dew drenches the grass, cats prowl the barns, geese march with purpose single-file through the yard and air is fragrant with a clean, verdant aroma. Marty and Kris Travis are out back at a walk-in cooler near the barn loading their 1995 Ford […]
(Reuters) – Black farmers are worried that a landmark deal to compensate them for discrimination faced over decades could slip through their fingers as a deadline looms without funding approved by lawmakers. Read More…
U.S. backed a plan unveiled by the G8 last year to spend $20 billion for African farming.