All rural races matter, but for this special issue on the eve of the midterms, Barn Raiser and Drop Site present a guide to ...

Remembering the life and work of Dolores Huerta, from the photos of a former United Farmworker Organizer David Bacon.

As Democrats double down and hope for a Blue Wave, some campaigns in rural America are feeling good about their shift from relying on direct mail and media to emphasizing bottom-up organizing. In ...

Paul Rogat Loeb is out with a substantially revised new edition of The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and ...

Sentient Media’s new interactive manure map and report confirms that Iowa is awash in animal waste. This comprehensive tool allows Iowans to type in their address and see just how much of that waste ...

A trio of row crop farmers in Iowa are doing the unthinkable: challenging the status quo of industrial ag in the fight to ...

At this year’s Real Organic conference, two leading voices in food systems debate about how we can feed 10 billion people while also feeding the planet.

When Tennessee Republicans redrew congressional district lines in May, they intended to make District 9 a safe Republican seat. Yet Justin Pearson is now n striking distance of his Republican opponent ...

In the winter of 2013, Sarait Martinez and I spent our Saturdays in Madera, a midsized farmworker town in California’s San Joaquin Valley. There, in a classroom at the Martin Luther King Jr. Middle ...

Bangor, Maine—When Paula Charette’s son was in high school, he and a group of seniors started working with the logging crews that replant Maine’s clear-cut forests in Aroostook County, the state’s ...

For years, the 686 residents in and around the small town of Stella, in Oneida County, Wisconsin, have been fighting for safe drinking water after discovering high levels of PFAS contamination in ...