Fighting for Food and Seed Sovereignty in Hawai’i

Fighting for Food and Seed Sovereignty in Hawai’i

Nancy Redfeather is a farmer, teacher, writer, program director and activist. By Allie Hymas “Start with one row,” says Nancy Redfeather, farmer, teacher, writer, program director and activist. In addition to decades teaching in Waldorf and public schools and...
Agroecologist Nicole Masters Finds the Joy in Soil Health

Agroecologist Nicole Masters Finds the Joy in Soil Health

Nicole Masters is an agroecologist and author from New Zealand. BY JILL HENDERSON Among the many thinkers, educators and practitioners who have led the way towards the life-supporting practices of regenerative agriculture are an army of women whose nurturing nature...
Sun+Earth Certified Sets a High Bar for Cannabis Production

Sun+Earth Certified Sets a High Bar for Cannabis Production

Interview by Ben Trollinger Photo courtesy of Sun+Earth Certified With the federal legalization of hemp and the continuing state-by-state rollout of recreational psychoactive cannabis, the cannabis industry is just picking up steam in the U.S. A California-based...
Karen Washington, The Queen of Urban Agriculture

Karen Washington, The Queen of Urban Agriculture

By Jill Henderson Karen readies raised beds in The Garden of Happiness. It all began in 1985 in the Bronx, when a young physical therapist named Karen Washington, a single mom with two young children, bought her very first home. Right away, she decided to grow a...
Gary Zimmer on 50 Years of Biological, Organic Farming

Gary Zimmer on 50 Years of Biological, Organic Farming

A roller lays down covers crops at the author’s farm in Wisconsin. By Gary F. Zimmer A little bit about myself before we dig into my 50 years of experience in biological farming: I was born and raised on a dairy farm in northeastern Wisconsin. I worked on the...