Year: 2011
Sheep with four horns, ducks with red fleshy heads, and pigs that look like cows? This isn’t a scene from ‘Through the Looking Glass’, but a description of the barnyard…
Young Farmers are everywhere. I’m writing this from the South. I’m on the road with Greenhorns, a documentary I made about young farmers in America– we are screening it at…
How to feed the approaching world population of 7 Billion people has been a compelling question for me as I talk to farmers and educators in my work with Cornell…
A group of farmers in Sullivan County take a pro-active approach to rural economic development. In spring of 2009, I was one of five farmers in Sullivan County, NY that…
Ponds have been a part of the working landscape since agriculture emerged. Since water is the basis of productive biological systems, retaining and distributing this storehouse of fertility and life…
My husband and I started Shelterbelt Farm in Caroline, NY last year, joining the ranks of new farmers across the country capitalizing on direct marketing opportunities and the demand for…
Members of the Snow family have been farming in the Town of Caroline, New York, since 1816, nearly 200 years. The current generation has returned to cheese making, a value…
When the United States’ agrarian-based economy evolved into an urban-industrial one in the mid-19th century, the new economic structures greatly altered the way work was managed and performed. Most…
Message from the Managing Editor Happy Summer! I hope this season brings you restful lunch breaks under shady trees and afternoon swims in wild ponds. I also hope you have…
You don’t need to lease your land to feel the impacts of industrialized gas drilling, which is now happening over much of New York and Pennsylvania. Just ask John…