Editorial for Countering Corporate Capture Issue
by Elizabeth Henderson, guest editor In this issue of TNF, we focus on concentration in the food system. As the cover image chart shows,...
top of page
The Natural Farmer
Winter 2022
Corporate Capture
Image Credit: Natasha Skov
Concentration and Power in the Food System
BY PHIL HOWARD As you know, there's a tendency in many industries to move away from markets characterized by many small firms towards...
Farmers’ Rights: It Is not too Late to Set This Right
BY MICHAEL SLIGH Farmers’ Rights in the international area is used as shorthand for the hard-fought rights to save, share and sell seeds...
A Parity Farm Bill for a Future with Family Farms and Monarchs
by George Naylor Once again, so many groups are focused on the “Farm Bill”, the key piece of legislation that could possibly put some...
Defending the US Organic Movement Against Corporate Capture
BY EDITH COUCHMAN There is a general consensus among informed observers that industrialized, large-scale, corporate interests have...
Farming at the intersection of economic and climate crises
By Grace Oedel, NOFA-VT Executive Director This article was originally printed in VT Digger on August 28, 2022. I belong to a local CSA...
Values-Based Purchasing: Opening Markets for Mid-sized and Smaller Farms
By Laura Edwards-Orr The Opportunity “Good Food Purchasing is an idea whose time has come, and many different entities in our community -...
Danone Puts Local Last: The Fight to save Organic Dairy Farms in the Northeast
By ED MALTBY In August 2021, Danone North America, which owns the organic dairy brand Horizon Organic, notified 89 organic dairy farm...
A Real Organic Dairy Farm
Interview with Chuck Blood by Elizabeth Henderson Q. Tell us a little about your farming Chuck: My partner Mary and I moved to Rocky Tops...
Building a Food Hub for Economies of Collaboration
By CHRIS HARTMAN Economies of collaboration can compete with economies of scale. That theme, first introduced to me at a National Good...
Evaluating Reduced and No-Till:
Findings from a Three-Year Study of Northeast Farmers Utilizing Alternative Tillage Systems BY CHRISTINE MANUCK In 2019, the NOFA...
Finding Common Grounds
By j.p. MUHLY "According to traditional thought, if we fail to organize all aspects of our lives, including our work to make positive or...
Farmer Ground Flour - Growing a Local Grain Ecosystem
BY EMILY REISS Farmer Ground Flour (FGF) is an organic, regional, flour mill in Trumansburg, New York. Its power is more than just...
Inheriting Genetic Resilience in Tomatoes & Ourselves
BY PETRA PAGE-MANN (inspired by ongoing conversations with Maddie Halpert, Matthew Goldfarb among many other curious humxns) In my...
Growing Vegetables in a Perennial Clover Living Mulch: Sawyer Farm’s Tillage Reduction Journey
BY LINCOLN FISHMAN Sawyer Farm is in the Hilltowns of Western Massachusetts. We've been farming here since 2010. In the early years, an...
bottom of page