Livestock Farmers Limited by Land Access
My name is Tessa Parks and my husband Wyatt and I began our farm business, W.T. Farms, in 2018. After working on others’ farms and dabbling in farming on our own in Washington State for six years, we moved to Minnesota after I finished my undergrad studies at St. Olaf in order to find more […]
Chapter Capacity Grant Feature: Central Virginia Young Farmers Chapter
This is the third installment in a blog series featuring the winners of our 2022 Muck Boot Chapter Capacity Grant program. The grant program awarded five Young Farmers chapters with $5,000 to compensate their organizing efforts or to cover expenses for a specific project, such as COVID-19 response efforts, racial equity trainings, or virtual platforms […]
Chapter Capacity Grant Feature: Hudson Valley Young Farmers Chapter
This is the second installment in a blog series featuring the winners of our 2022 Muck Boot Chapter Capacity Grant program. The grant program awarded five Young Farmers chapters with $5,000 to compensate their organizing efforts or to cover expenses for a specific project, such as COVID-19 response efforts, racial equity trainings, or virtual platforms […]
Young Farmer Climate Perspectives: Kellee Matsushita-Tseng, UCSC Farm, Santa Cruz, CA
The compounding issues of dangerous farming conditions, changes in weather patterns, and a lack of access to water are felt more strongly by small, diversified, and BIPOC farmers, and lawmakers must find pathways to support these farmers. Young Farmers Board Member Kellee Matsushita-Tseng is the assistant farm garden manager and instructor at the University of […]
Young Farmer Climate Perspectives: Scott Chang-Fleeman, Shao Shan Farm, Bolinas, CA
Living and farming in Northern California, Scott Chang-Fleeman of Shao Shan Farm is no stranger to the ways in which climate change is affecting farmers like him. Shao Shan Farm is a five-acre certified organic farm specializing in East and Southeast Asian vegetables. They sell their products through direct marketing — at farmers markets, through […]
Chapter Capacity Grant Feature: West Michigan Young Farmers Chapter
This is the first installment in a blog series featuring the winners of our 2022 Muck Boot Chapter Capacity Grant program. The grant program awarded five Young Farmers chapters with $5,000 to compensate themselves for their organizing efforts or to cover expenses for a specific project, such as COVID-19 response efforts, racial equity trainings, or […]
Young Farmer Climate Perspectives: Bari Zeiger, Healing Poem Farm, Java, NY
USDA must focus on expanding and supporting the young and BIPOC farmers who are already working to fight the climate crisis through farming. My name is Bari Zeiger and I am the owner and operator of Healing Poem Farm, an ecological farm in the start-up phase, located 35 minutes from the city of Buffalo in […]
Young Farmers and Climate Change: Katie Funk and Jeff Hake at Funks Grove, Illinois
Farmers who produce maple syrup depend on cycles of above-freezing days and freezing nights to keep tree sap flowing. These ideal conditions typically occur during late winter or early spring in New England and the Midwest, allowing tappers to collect sweet sap to boil down to maple syrup. But for farmers Katie Funk and Jeff […]
Young Farmers and Climate Change: Reflections on Winter Storm Uri with Carolina Mueller
“Climate change isn’t anything new for farmers who have been working here for the past ten years,” says Carolina Mueller, a farmer who supports her partner and farm owner, Lorig Hawkins, with running Middle Ground Farm, a 30-acre certified organic vegetable and livestock farm in Utley, Texas. Carolina Mueller (left) and Lorig Hawkins (right) stand […]
We Are Excited About Beans
This article was originally published in the Greenhorns New Farmer’s Almanac, Volume V: Grand Land Plan, now available for order. Image by Molly Reeder, “Big Heirloom Bean Babies.” Grocery shelves of canned and bagged beans were the first to be wiped clean with the onset of COVID-19 in the U.S. When restaurants and farmers markets […]