Last Chance in this Farm Bill for Beginning Farmers and Our Farmland
Today over 40% of farmland is rented, leaving farmers at the mercy of their landlords and disincentivizing long-term investments in infrastructure and ecosystems. It’s time for federal policy that sees...
View ArticleTake the 2018 Pennsylvania Young Farmers Survey!
Are you a young farmer in Pennsylvania? Take the NYFC 2018 PA Young Farmers Survey today! NYFC is building farmer-led change, and we want to be sure your voice is heard in shaping the policies and...
View ArticleNdée Bikíyaa: The People’s Farm
In celebration of Indigenous People’s Day, Lindsey speaks with Clayton Harvey of the White Mountain Apache Tribe in Arizona about how farming has shaped his spiritual identity and helped keep Apache...
View ArticleRisky business: How Ten Mothers Farm in North Carolina is recovering from the...
Since my wife Vera and I started Ten Mothers Farm in Hillsborough, NC three years ago, we’ve become accustomed to the idea that farming is a risky business. We’ve weathered our share of crop failures,...
View ArticleThe time is now for young farmers to take climate action
Last week, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a special report on climate change, calling for “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society,”...
View ArticleShare your story to help pass a farm bill for young farmers!
We are really down to the wire. September 30th is the farm bill expiration date, and unless Congress passes a final version of the bill, many of the programs young farmers rely on may lose funding....
View ArticleThe 2018 Global Action Climate Summit: we can’t solve climate change unless...
A summary of the Global Action Climate Summit by Kate Greenberg, Western Program Director Rukka Sombolinggi, Secretary General of Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara (AMAN), an organization of indigenous...
View ArticleFacing Disaster, Head-On
Hurricane Florence has caused an estimated $1 billion in damages to farms in the Carolinas, and the destruction continues. Lindsey interviews Davon Goodwin, a North Carolina farmer and manager of the...
View Article“How did so many pigs end up in a floodplain?”
Hurricane Florence has been a disaster on many levels, leaving economic, social, and environmental destruction in its path across the Carolinas. In North Carolina, a locus of global pork production,...
View ArticleLast Chance in this Farm Bill for Beginning Farmers and Our Farmland
Today over 40% of farmland is rented, leaving farmers at the mercy of their landlords and disincentivizing long-term investments in infrastructure and ecosystems. It’s time for federal policy that sees...
View ArticleTake the 2018 Pennsylvania Young Farmers Survey!
Are you a young farmer in Pennsylvania? Take the NYFC 2018 PA Young Farmers Survey today! NYFC is building farmer-led change, and we want to be sure your voice is heard in shaping the policies and...
View ArticleNdée Bikíyaa: The People’s Farm
In celebration of Indigenous People’s Day, Lindsey speaks with Clayton Harvey of the White Mountain Apache Tribe in Arizona about how farming has shaped his spiritual identity and helped keep Apache...
View ArticleRisky business: How Ten Mothers Farm in North Carolina is recovering from the...
Since my wife Vera and I started Ten Mothers Farm in Hillsborough, NC three years ago, we’ve become accustomed to the idea that farming is a risky business. We’ve weathered our share of crop failures,...
View ArticleThe time is now for young farmers to take climate action
Last week, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a special report on climate change, calling for “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society,”...
View ArticleLand Team Dispatch: Climate, Land Trusts, and Finance
Last year, NYFC released Building A Future with Farmers II, our report on the findings of our 2017 National Young Farmer Survey. We found that land access is the number one challenge facing young...
View ArticleCooperative Power
In 1920, 14% of U.S. farmers were black – today less than 2%. Land ownership by Black farmers has also declined over the past 100 years, from 15 million acres to roughly 2 million acres. These numbers...
View ArticleFarm Bill Politics 5: #farmbillnow
The 2014 Farm Bill has been expired since October 1st. What does this mean for young farmers and ranchers and the USDA programs they rely on? This week, we catch up with Andrew Bahrenburg, our National...
View Article#NYFCconvergence 2018: Happy Family Ranch
Roberto Melendez of Happy Family Ranch in Midland, VA shares why he is joining the 100 young farmers heading to DC for our 4th Annual National Leadership Convergence this November 12th-15th. “My...
View ArticleRelease: After a month with no farm bill, one hundred young farmers fly to DC...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Kate Bittman | View full release and contacts After a month with no farm bill, one hundred young farmers fly to DC to demand swift passage After a month with no farm bill, one...
View Article#NYFCconvergence 2018: Olivia Watkins
Olivia Watkins of Holly Springs, NC shares why she is joining the 100 young farmers heading to DC for our 4th Annual National Leadership Convergence this November 12th-15th. “Next week I will be going...
View Article