Farming

Extreme Heat Takes Farming To The Brink

July 11, 2026 Robert Hunziker, Counter Punch. Educate! climate crisis, Farming, Food and Agriculture, Fossil Fuels, Global heating

Ever since the landmark Paris ’15 UN climate agreement wherein 195 nations agreed to cut fossil fuel CO2 emissions via NDCs 30% to 60% by 2030, the opposite has happened. It’s now ten (10) years since Paris ’15, and according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels have reached an all-time high, peaking at an average of 432.3 ppm in May 2026. This is the opposite of what the parties agreed to do and based upon current and proposed cuts, Paris ’15 is dead. The nations of the world have failed. Their failure is now showing up in climate change

Rethinking The Farm Bill: Supporting Farmers Close To Home

May 7, 2026 Emma Nicolas and Jessica Cusworth, Farm Action. Create! Farming, Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Local Economy

America’s food system isn’t set up to get food from independent farmers to their communities. Decades of consolidation and underinvestment have left farmers and consumers reliant on long, vulnerable supply chains controlled by a few companies. But the collapse of local and regional food systems wasn’t inevitable—it was the result of deliberate choices, and people are working to change it. We sat down with Benji Ballmer, co-founder of Yellowbird Foodshed in Mount Vernon, Ohio, to discuss what it takes to reconnect farmers with their communities.

Modern Agriculture Is Collapsing Under Climate Change

April 6, 2026 Miacel Spotted Elk, Intercontinental Cry. Create! climate crisis, Farming, Food and Agriculture, Indigenous Knowledge, Sustainability

In the last five years, Indigenous agriculture has received attention in academia as an alternative model, though on a smaller scale, to modern farming systems. Research has shown that some traditional farming systems — such as growing maize, beans, and squash together — protect soil health, reduce biodiversity loss, and support Indigenous knowledge, known as traditional ecological knowledge. How many of these elements from traditional farming can successfully translate into larger crop production models, when little research defines their economic value, is a question Kamaljit Sangha, a researcher in ecological economics at Charles Darwin University, wanted to explore in a new study published earlier this month in the journal Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.

The Ag Coop That Shares More Than Machinery

April 3, 2026 Pauline Petit, Resilience. Create! Cooperative, Farming, Food and Agriculture, France

What if, instead of going into debt to invest in their farms, farmers came together to pool equipment? What if, instead of struggling to run a small farm alone, there was extra help at hand? What if new entrants could draw on the experience of more established farmers in their local area? It may sound too good to be true, but this is the reality with France’s network of Agricultural Machinery Cooperatives (CUMA). With more than 10,000 local branches all over France, the CUMA is a space for farmers of all stripes to come together in a neighbourly spirit of mutual aid and solidarity.

To Make America Healthy Again, Break Up Big Ag

March 30, 2026 Amanda Claire Starbuck, Counter Punch. Educate! Big Ag, Congress, Farming, health, Pesticides

President Trump has systematically broken virtually every promise made on the campaign trail to court health-focused voters. His most recent walk-backs on pesticide reform are a cruel insult to the idea of “making America healthy again.” Among other controversies, he issued an executive order to boost the production of glyphosate, a toxic pesticide linked to cancer. And he’s repeatedly sided with Bayer in a Supreme Court case that will determine legal immunity from health-related lawsuits for pesticide manufacturers. Voters of both parties are hungry for a new path forward.

GOP Farm Bill Set To Unleash Pesticide Use

March 15, 2026 Michael Arria, Truthout. Educate! Congress, Farm Bill, Farming, Food and Agriculture, health, Pesticides

The “Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026” that is coming up for a House vote this spring is yet another GOP-led assault on the country’s food safety, warn public health organizations, environmental groups, and animal rights advocates, who are sounding the alarm over the five-year bill. The House Committee on Agriculture passed the “Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026” on March 5 by a 34-17 vote. All 27 Republicans on the committee backed the bill, and seven Democrats crossed the aisle to join them. The legislation will now head to Congress.

Ireland: Breaking New Ground For The Local Food Movement

January 8, 2026 Oliver Moore, Resilience. Create! Farming, Food Sovereignty, Ireland, Local Economy

Feeding Ourselves is a community of practice in Ireland (CoP) – an organised but informal network of food system animators from production to consumption and all the elements in between – which has been running for some years. Initially it was just a gathering, one that ARC has partnered with many times (e.g. last year’s here). Now, the CoP runs webinars, newsletters and organises events to build its knowledge and action base. Its most recent event was a big step forward for the good food good farming movement in Ireland.

Linking City And Countryside To Solve Food Insecurity

August 22, 2025 Anabel Peterman, Next City. Create! Farming, Food, Food Insecurity, Food Waste, Kentucky, Nonprofits

There’s more than enough food to go around, say food access organizers across landscapes. That’s hard to imagine in Kentucky, home to some of the lowest-income and food insecure counties nationwide. The true surplus becomes apparent when a dozen pallets of peaches are loaded in for the Hazel Green Food Project, stretching across the stockyard lot in rural Wolfe County. Someone hollers for volunteers to sort through the haul, so they don vests and plastic gloves and get to work. Good fruit will be sifted into bags and packed into a family’s car later that morning. The rest will become animal feed for local farmers. Drive an hour west, and the words ring equally true in the Commonwealth’s urban centers.

What It’s Like To Farm As A Cooperative

July 15, 2025 Growing for Market Magazine, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Canada, Cooperatives, Farming, Food and Agriculture

“Oh, I remember when I was young and I wanted to start a farm co-op with my friends, too!” This was the common refrain my friends and I heard back in 2004 when we’d tell established farmers about the farm co-op we were starting. Our group met studying agriculture at McGill University’s MacDonald campus. We had gone our own ways for a few years to work on and manage other farms. Now, we were to run our own farm. We decided to do this together as a worker co-op. A lot of what we were talking about excited established farmers, but then they followed up with, “But then I started a real farm on my own.” No one directly told us not to start a co-op, but there didn’t seem to be a lot of faith that this was a real project.

Richmond’s Black Leaders Dreamed Of Creating An Agrihood

October 6, 2024 Barry Greene, Jr, Next City. Resist! Farming, Food and Agriculture, inclusionary zoning, Richmond, Virginia, zoning

When Richmond, Virginia-based nonprofit Girls for a Change was offered a eight-acre parcel of land from a local benefactor, CEO Angela Patton knew the Black youth development organization could do something special for the neighborhood. “We were sitting on this property for a while trying to just figure out what would it be,” says Patton, who has lived in Richmond’s Bensley suburb for nearly two decades. “Would it be a summer camp for girls? Would it be a community center for the community? Would it be a women’s wellness center?” In 2021, Patton announced their plan to turn the vacant land into the Bensley Agrihood, a permanently affordable housing development featuring 10 affordable homes, four tiny homes, a wellness center and a 1.5-acre working community farm that would serve as an amenity for the neighborhood.

Pesticides Make Living In Farm Towns As Risky As Smoking

August 31, 2024 Shannon Kelleher, In These Times. Educate! Cancer, Farming, Food and Agriculture, Health Care, Pesticides, rural communities

People who don’t farm, but live in U.S. agricultural communities where pesticides are used on farms, face an increased cancer risk as significant as if they were smokers, according to a new study. The study, published July 24 in the journal Frontiers in Cancer Control and Society, analyzed cancer incidence data from nearly every U.S. county and looked at how that data corresponded to federal data on agricultural pesticide use. Researchers reported that they found the higher the pesticide use, the higher the risk for every type of cancer the researchers looked at. “Agricultural pesticide use has a significant impact on all the cancer types evaluated in this study (all cancers, bladder cancer, colon cancer, leukemia, lung cancer, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and pancreatic cancer."

Farming While Black

August 29, 2024 Next City. Create! Black America, Farming, Food and Agriculture, Racial Justice

Once upon a time, 14%of farmers in the United States were Black. That was in 1910. But that number has dwindled. Today, Black farmers comprise less than 2% of all growers across the country. On this week’s episode, our host Lucas Grindley notes: “That's more than 14 million acres of lost land.” This loss, along with the discrimination and violence perpetrated against African-American farmers and the current movement of more Black people returning to agriculture and land stewardship, is the subject of the documentary “Farming While Black,” which was released in 2023. Mark Decena, the writer and director of the documentary, describes it as a Venn diagram of social justice, climate justice and food sovereignty.

Re-Farming And The Right To Plant

June 18, 2024 Chris Smaje, Resilience. Create! Environment, Farming, Land Conservation, Rewilding

The word ‘rewilding’ has had its day and now needs to slip gracefully into retirement. That, at any rate, is the polite suggestion I’m going to make in this post, which is the last in my recent mini-series on ‘wrecked’ land and what to do about it. It’s not that, for the most part, I object to a lot of the practical activities that are done in the name of rewilding by conservationists, land managers, farmers, ecologists and so on. In that sense, I agree with most of what Ian Carter says in this recent article, except for his concluding remarks endorsing the term. I got to thinking about this when I gave a Q&A talk recently and made a flippantly negative reference to the term while making the case for low-impact, peopled, agrarian landscapes.

Veganic Growing And Animal-Free Agriculture: The Path Forward

April 7, 2024 Jimmy Videle, LA Progressive. Create! Farming, Food and Agriculture, Sustainability, Veganic growing

Nature is complex. Her underground web is as intricate as her above-ground diversity. Below our feet, bacteria, microorganisms, mycorrhizae, and roots of perennial plants work symbiotically, absorbing and moving nutrients to wherever the need arises. Science has defined ecosystems and family groups, constantly updating our knowledge bank based on the most recent discoveries. However, this is the human interpretation of the natural world, but the way other animal species interpret it is likely different. While all species tend to follow the rhythms of nature, there is one that seems to go against her: ours, Homo sapiens.

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