Spring 2022: Land Access

Community Land Trusts as a Vehicle for Homestead Land Sharing

GRACE GERSHUNY

Dec 21, 20226 min read

Community Land Trusts as a Vehicle for Homestead Land Sharing

BY GRACE GERSHUNY Land ownership is often considered to be integral to achieving the “American dream.” At the founding of this country,...

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Dec 21, 202210 min read

Accessing Farmland Together: Strategies and Considerations

BY KATHY RUHF AND JIM HABANA HAFNER Many farmers are exploring ways to farm together. The idea of being and sharing with other farmers is...

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MARY-HOWELL AND KLAAS MARTENS

Dec 21, 202211 min read

Building the Organic Neighborhood

BY MARY-HOWELL AND KLAAS MARTENS American agriculture has a serious problem. The average American grain farmer is in their 60’s, often...

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KRISTINA VILLA

Dec 21, 20225 min read

Agrarian Trust and the Agrarian Commons

BY KRISTINA VILLA The Agrarian Trust exists to raise awareness and address the crisis of exceedingly high land prices that puts land...

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How One NYS Farmer Found Land by Writing Letters and Making Cold Calls

ELIZABETH GABRIEL

Dec 21, 20227 min read

How One NYS Farmer Found Land by Writing Letters and Making Cold Calls

An interview with Erica Frenay, Co-owner Shelterbelt Farm BY ELIZABETH GABRIEL We know well that finding land is one of the biggest...

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We Built a Farm on Public Land…That Was the First Hurdle

CAROLINE FANNING

Dec 21, 20224 min read

We Built a Farm on Public Land…That Was the First Hurdle

BY CAROLINE FANNING Twenty years ago, when my husband and I were apprentices in the Hudson Valley, the world of small-scale farms could...

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Expanding Tree Tapping Through Sap Harvesting Tenure Agreements

MIKE RECHLIN, PH.D

Dec 21, 20224 min read

Expanding Tree Tapping Through Sap Harvesting Tenure Agreements

BY MIKE RECHLIN, PH.D Harvesting sap to produce maple syrup is a historic farming activity in many areas of the Northeast and Appalachia....

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Escaping Private Property: A Long-Term Alternative to Farmland Ownership

ELIZABETH HENDERSON

Dec 21, 202211 min read

Escaping Private Property: A Long-Term Alternative to Farmland Ownership

BY ELIZABETH HENDERSON In the US, the ideal for most farmers is to have their own farm and to hold it as private property. With farmland...

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DOUG HERTZLER

Dec 21, 20225 min read

Land Justice, Not Speculation

BY DOUG HERTZLER Access to land has become the number one issue for aspiring young farmers in the United States, who come from many...

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What Legal Personhood for U.S. Rivers Would Do

KAYLA DEVAULT

Dec 21, 20223 min read

What Legal Personhood for U.S. Rivers Would Do

BY KAYLA DEVAULT In mid-March of 2017, New Zealand officially recognized the Whanganui River as a living entity with rights. The river,...

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Planting Roots at Providence Farm Collective

KYLE SEMMELL

Dec 21, 20227 min read

Planting Roots at Providence Farm Collective

BY KYLE SEMMELL Life in Refugee Camps Although Abdullah “Abdi” Sundi’s family had farmed in Somalia for years, Abdi never learned how. In...

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SOLVEIG HANSON

Dec 21, 20227 min read

Seeds and Their Stories: A Beet Story

A plant-person companionship through research, recovery, and reimagining BY SOLVEIG HANSON This started as an article about beets. During...

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My Back Yard, Equity Concerns, and Land Grant Truth-Telling

CHARLES GEISLER

Dec 21, 202214 min read

My Back Yard, Equity Concerns, and Land Grant Truth-Telling

BY CHARLES GEISLER I live on land in upstate New York awarded to Revolutionary War veteran, Izaac Doty, for his military service. I also...

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Parenting and Farming: Seeding Gratitude, Cultivating Care

NIKKI KOLB

Dec 16, 20224 min read

Parenting and Farming: Seeding Gratitude, Cultivating Care

BY NIKKI KOLB A cow is crossing the road. It’s mostly white with rusty spots and curvy horns, head high, at once regal and nervous as it...

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JEN MILLER

Dec 16, 20223 min read

Pricing Milk

BY JEN MILLER How many mature cows did you have as of January 1, 2020? Did you buy or sell any equipment in 2019? How much milk did you...

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Studio Hill Farm: A story of resilience and regeneration

JACQUELINE SUSSMAN

Dec 16, 20225 min read

Studio Hill Farm: A story of resilience and regeneration

Visitors regularly pass through to learn about the regenerative techniques used to remove and store atmospheric carbon.

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The Farmer’s Voice in the Climate Crisis: How Climate Challenges Expose the Need for Regenerative Ag

KATHLEEN ERNSTING

Nov 27, 20226 min read

The Farmer’s Voice in the Climate Crisis: How Climate Challenges Expose the Need for Regenerative Ag

It goes without saying that agriculture in the Northeast is being affected by climate change, and Massachusetts farmers are no exception.

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