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The Hidden Link Between Food Waste and Natural Disasters

Emma Jagoz is a first-generation farmer, and the founder of Moon Valley Farm—a community-based farm in Woodsboro, Maryland. Since July, Moon Valley Farm and...

In normal times, Edwina Valdo, a tribal member and program coordinator at the Pueblo of Acoma, can be found working in the health and human services division...

At 6:45 am on August 11th, my dad and I arrived at an inconspicuous industrial warehouse lot in Secaucus, New Jersey. The world was already awake and...

Christine Hutchinson

In the town of Newburgh, New York, which lies along the Hudson River about 60 miles north of Manhattan, there is a cooperative community of youth involved in...

Christian Bailey and Julie Burke

Christian Bailey and Julie Kremer stand outside a temporary refrigerator unit in a hot field on June 26, 2020. Nothing about Christian’s appearance hints at...

Chloe (aka Farmer Hotzenplotz)

On the side of a road in Bainbridge Island, Washington sits Farmer Hotzenplotz’s farm stand, blooming with bouquets of flowers and jars of herbs. Placed...

“The folks in line need that stability. They don’t necessarily know where [the food] is coming from or how it got there. They just need to know that they’ll...

Briana Giampaoli

“If you’re not growing, you’re at risk. Our growth allows us to do more for our customers and our employees, and the opportunity to give back more.” Have you...

“When you wake up, you see the morning begin, most nights you go back to your home, it’s dark, and you see the stars. You are constantly in nature and...

The small office in Hattiesburg, Mississippi could be the site of any local small business. A whiteboard hangs on the wall, covered with a paper calendar and...

“Growing up on a farm, I liked the farm lifestyle, but I wasn’t sure I wanted to be a dairy farmer,” Larry Alsum of Alsum Farms & Produce, Inc., told me over...

As a Placement Team co-lead at The Farmlink Project, Jake Dudley oversees the team responsible for finding and securing food banks to receive surplus produce...