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Helping Farmers Keep Farming
Across the country, hundreds of thousands of farmers are navigating disabilities, chronic health conditions, injuries, and the physical changes that may come with aging. The National AgrAbility Project and Healing by Growing Farms work to support farmers with disabilities so they can keep doing the work they love.
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Lessons From the Drought
After a year of drought and unpredictable weather, farmers share lessons learned for building on-farm resilience.
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Know Before You Call
Farmers seeking support can call the Farm Aid Hotline at 800.FARM.AID or RAFI’s Farmer Financial Crisis Hotline at 866.586.6746. Providers from across the country share tips on how to make the most of this kind of support.
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Corporate Welfare Queens
Tracing the history of SNAP reveals how the narrative about people experiencing hunger changes over time. Justine Post writes that only by understanding these narrative shifts can we begin to create a new narrative — one that shifts the blame and shame around food insecurity away from hungry individuals and instead demands systemic change in our current food system.
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Solar Futures
Energy prices are up, and farmers need creative solutions to keep their operations running. RAFI is using solar pumps to help farmers in Puerto Rico and North Carolina achieve energy independence.
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Advocates Assemble!
They may not be battling space aliens or leaping tall buildings in a single bound, but North Carolina farmers are teaming up to tackle an even bigger challenge: fixing the regional food system. RAFI is teaming up with farmers from across the state to give NC producers a voice in policy decisions that shape the agricultural landscape.
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The Road to Organic
Becoming USDA certified organic helps farmers demonstrate their commitment to environmental practices and communicate value to customers, but the process can be daunting. Farmers share their lessons learned from the road to organic certification, the challenges and pitfalls along the way, and advice for farmers making the shift.
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If You Give a Food Hub a Chance
“We joke that we became a food hub overnight,” said Laura Torres, the Director of the Smoky Mountain Harvest Hub (SMHH) in Waynesville, NC. This food hub, which aggregates from farmers across the region, distributes most of their produce via Haywood Christian Ministry (HCM), the highest volume food pantry in MANNA FoodBank’s service area. What […]
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