Anna Sekine works as the Midwest Farmland Associate at American Farmland Trust. In this role, she supports programs focused on farmland protection, next-generation land access, and farm transfer ...

This article draws from the author’s research for her book Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America, which examines health care in rural immigrant communities on Maryland’s Eastern ...

The billionaire-led push to siphon public funds to private religious schools faces a backlash from rural voters who make up the GOP base.

Grocery co-ops help democratize food access in food deserts. Now they could take off in communities across rural and small town America.

The USDA-funded Managing Pasture for Healthy Farms and Soils Across Vermont aims to help farmers implement sustainable grazing practices.

For Iriel Edwards, movements of food and racial justice are key to connecting people with ancestral and deep ecological knowledge.

The Indigenous Growers Reviving Hemp’s Deep Roots “Cannabis and hemp offer solutions to many challenges in an industrial society” ...

Eight years after the Standing Rock Protests, the owner of the Dakota Access Pipeline is taking Greenpeace to trial to suppress dissent.

A green energy push is bringing millions of dollars to Michigan’s rural communities. But not everyone is pleased.

Through the Bdote Learning Experience, Indigenous artists are recreating Minnesota’s maps from a Dakota perspective.

The story of one mountain lion’s 800-mile journey to the heart of Chicago offers a window into the Midwest’s changing ecology.

American family farmers have been left holding the bag from the corporate-driven anti–family farm policies of the last 60 years.