It’s the End of the Beginning of the Coronavirus

Originally published in Rhode Island Monthly The coronavirus outbreak blasted holes in Rhode Island’s already-frayed social safety net, and the pandemic isn’t over yet. August 12, 2020 Ellen Liberman Between

Maine Farmers Struggle with New, Harsher Climate Reality

The Northeast is warming faster than any other region in the contiguous U.S., which means longer, drier summers punctuated by more intense bouts of precipitation. Originally published by Civil Eats.

What is the 2021 UN Food Summit Really About?

As many of you know, the UN is planning a 2021 global “Food Summit.” We don’t know right now if the Summit will be in person, as originally planned, with

That Flour You Bought Could Be the Future of the U.S. Economy

Keep baking bread. Small grain companies may suggest a better path for American business. Originally published in the New York Times opinion section. By the established logic of the business

To fix the food system, fix our democracy

Originally published in the Boston Globe People go hungry not from lack of food but from lack of political power. BY FRANCES MOORE LAPPÉ Today’s multiplying threats are truly scary

Maine Harvest FCU grant program aims to boost farmland buys

Originally published in Mainebiz. A new program by the Maine Harvest Federal Credit Union will pay closing costs for farmland sales or refinancing, a move aimed at taking advantage of

Agriculture census data shakes up the Locavore Index; Vermont still on top; California jumps to second place

Originally published in the June 3, 2019 issue of VermontBiz. Vermont Business Magazine Vermont still ranks at the top of the Strolling of the Heifers Locavore Index, meaning that it has