Cover Section A: Cultivating Curiosity & Cultures of Care: Breeding Turnips Beyond Eugenics
By Petra Page-Mann (inspired by ongoing conversations with Maddie Halpert & Matthew Goldfarb, among many other curious humxns*) When...
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Al Johnson
Jan 52 min read
NOFA’s Person of the Year - 2023 - Stephanie Harris
By Al Johnson The dictionary defines a “stalwart” as “A morally strong and active supporter of an organization or cause.” NOFA-New...
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Elizabeth Gabriel
Jan 57 min read
Farmer Profiles: Jack and Julie from Many Hands Organic Farm, Barre, MA
Interviewed by Elizabeth Gabriel TNF: People feel connected to NOFA because of our shared love of the land and farming and because we’ve...
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Grace Oedel
Jan 54 min read
Support Farmers Now for a Climate-Resilient Future
By Grace Oedel Despite Vermont’s reputation as a climate haven, the climate crisis is here. Increasingly erratic and extreme weather,...
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Kate Bobrowski, et al
Jan 55 min read
The True Cost of Goods - How Much Does Your Food Really Cost?
By Kate Dobrowski, Edith Pucci Couchman Bill Wardwell & NOFA-NH’s Education Committee Members Eten, hrana, 餐饮, מזון, kos, mea ʻai,...
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Molly Anderson
Jan 56 min read
Corporate Control of Food System Governance
By Molly Anderson Troubling developments at the global scale are unfolding, likely affecting us locally sooner or later. Several problems...
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Bec Sloan
Jan 34 min read
Stirrings in the Marketplace
By Bec Sloane Farmers markets are changing the way we scale up. They cast a brighter light on our local producers in communities...
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Noah Wurtz
Jan 35 min read
How the Maya Community is Redefining Farming in Nebraska
By Noah Wurtz In 2019, a bomb cyclone tore across Nebraska, submerging the state under the worst flood it had seen in 50 years. “All of...
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Crystal Stewart Courtens
Jan 38 min read
Ten Years of Garlic Research - Part 2
By Crytal Stewart-Courtens As we prepare to welcome another garlic crop, let’s mentally walk through its spring and summer months and...
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Elizabeth Schuster and Michelle Klieger
Jan 310 min read
The Role of Small Farms in Feeding the Hungry: A Case Study on Vermont Everyone Eats
By Elizabeth Schuster and Michelle Klieger The COVID-19 pandemic was a tremendous disruption for many small farms. Unfortunately, these...
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Robert Kurth
Jan 37 min read
One Man's Journey to Soil
By Robert Kurth I am in love. I am in love with two soil scientists, Christine Jones and Nicole Masters. These women from down-under make...
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Elizabeth Gabriel
Jan 34 min read
Letter from the Editor, Scaling Up & Down
Over the weekend, I was honored to attend the wedding of one of our area's most respected organic farmers. Wearing a summer dress and,...
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Anita Ashok Adalja
Oct 3, 20233 min read
AS FARMERS, WE ARE PRESSED ON BOTH ENDS . . .
by Anita Ashok Adalja to make a living for ourselves and our hired crew and to provide food to a country that is paying much less than...
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Shani Mink
Oct 3, 20233 min read
Religious and Cultural Diversity on the Farm
By Shani Mink The Jewish High Holidays are a very special time for my family. It’s a yearly reset – we pray, eat, don’t eat, gossip, ask...
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Cindy Hahamovitch
Oct 3, 202311 min read
Operation Blooming Onion and the Long Sordid History of the H2A Program
By Cindy Hahamovitch In 2021, a multi-agency sting called Operation Blooming Onion netted two dozen alleged “human traffickers” who were...
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ELIZABETH HENDERSON
Oct 3, 202312 min read
Immigration Reform, H2A, and Justice for Farmworkers
By Elizabeth Henderson During the month of February, the Farmworker Association of Florida members, low-income Latinx workers, many of...
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Lily Masee
Oct 3, 20235 min read
Culturing a Rural Livelihood: A Young Dairy Farmer’s Determination
By Lily Massee Lisa Marchetti’s life as a farmer has been nothing short of nomadic. Over the past decade, she has worked on ten different...
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Karina Lutz
Oct 3, 20234 min read
Forty Stolen Acres and a Volunteer Mule: Free Labor, Free Food, and the Illusion of Freedom
By Karina Lutz Volunteers working on small organic farms are so common they deeply impact farm economics. Many farmers I know, all I've...
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Míchi López
Oct 3, 20235 min read
Farmworker Mental Health: how our food system is affecting the mental health of the people who feed
By Míchi López Take a second to close your eyes and picture the answer to the following question: where does our food come from? It may...
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Al Johnson
Oct 3, 20236 min read
Farm Worker to Farmer – Different Journeys
By Al Johnson We might agree on the definition of a “farmworker,” but defining a “Farmer” is more complicated. Does a farmer own and work...
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