#NYFCconvergence 2018: Olivia Watkins
Olivia Watkins of Holly Springs, NC shares why she is joining the 100 young farmers heading to DC for our 4th Annual National Leadership Convergence this November 12th-15th. “Next week I will be going to the Capitol with 100 other
Risky business: How Ten Mothers Farm in North Carolina is recovering from the hurricanes and preparing for the future
Since my wife Vera and I started Ten Mothers Farm in Hillsborough, NC three years ago, we’ve become accustomed to the idea that farming is a risky business. We’ve weathered our share of crop failures, but they’ve always been manageable:
"How did so many pigs end up in a floodplain?"
Hurricane Florence has been a disaster on many levels, leaving economic, social, and environmental destruction in its path across the Carolinas. In North Carolina, a locus of global pork production, continued flooding has also led to a livestock death toll
Facing Disaster, Head-On
Hurricane Florence has caused an estimated $1 billion in damages to farms in the Carolinas, and the destruction continues. Lindsey interviews Davon Goodwin, a North Carolina farmer and manager of the Sandhills AGInnovation Center, to find out what it looks
On the County Line
By Eva Moss | Last January, I began leasing 16 acres of historical farmland in Randolph County, a few seconds west of the Chatham County line. Since 1988 the county line has been a divider along party lines: Chatham has
FoodCorps - Supporting Farm to School Programs Across the US
Many of us in the farming world know exactly where our food comes from – we grow it, we raise it, and we buy it locally. However, much of our society has lost touch with the food they consume—where it