Farming
Farm Labor Rights and “Ecofeminism” with Rosalinda Guillen
Rosalinda Guillen is a widely recognized rural justice leader and a champion of farmworker rights. Born in Texas, Rosalinda spent her first decade in Coahuila, Mexico before emigrating with her family to LaConner, Washington in 1960. At the age of..
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How One Organic Farmer Fought For Her Rights—And Won
Atina Diffley is an organic farmer, a public speaker and author of the 2013 Minnesota Book Award Winner Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works. Her advocacy has addressed the pressures of suburban development, and she successfully led a legal..
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PCC Farmland Trust: Preventing Rural Gentrification, Preserving Farmland Forever
Most of us picture “gentrification” as an urban phenomenon. Developers move in on poor or immigrant neighborhoods to take advantage of depressed land values; residents are driven out as rents go up. In rural areas, the same forces are at work, and..
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Who Owns Our Seeds?
Dr. Bill Tracy is the Clif Bar Family Foundation / Organic Valley endowed chair of organic plant breeding and chair of the department of agronomy at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. His expertise—his art, truly—is sweet corn. While Dr..
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'Ag in the Middle' & Eating Local with Kathleen Bauer
Kathleen Bauer is a writer, blogger, producer and cook who connects the dots between what's happening with farmers in the fields and what she puts on her table to feed family and friends. Her blog, called Good Stuff NW, got a lot of attention for..
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Animal Welfare in Organic Agriculture
Dr. Meggan Hain is an animal care specialist for CROPP Cooperative. Born to a farming family in South Africa, Meggan received her Bachelor's Degree in Animal Science and a Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from Ohio State University. Meggan is..