Our Future
As a nonprofit organization, A Greener World (AGW) is constantly looking for opportunities to deliver our mission. However, not all opportunities are worth pursuing. And as new opportunities to expand our work have emerged, we recognized the need to refine our vision into an aspirational statement that would provide clear direction, alignment, and consistency across all our programs and partnerships. Refining our vision In August of 2024, the AGW Board and senior staff began working together to develop a…
First Principles
Jerry Kitt (above right, with his family) owns First Nature Farms, a 3,000-acre certified organic farm in Goodfare, Alberta. First Nature Farms raises AGW-certified pasture-raised Berkshire pigs and cattle. How did you get into farming? Quite by accident—while hitchhiking! Raised in Edmonton with a love for the outdoors, I hitched a ride to Alaska and was picked up by a long-lost cousin who had just bought land in Goodfare. He eventually settled there, and I followed, working at a research…
Big Ag, Big Problems: Why Industrial Agriculture is Not the “Future of Food”
I read Michael Grunwald’s recent New York Times Opinion piece, Sorry, but This Is the Future of Food, with an equal measure of disappointment and irony. Disappointment at Grunwald’s lack of journalistic rigor and ambition; irony because the author’s (pretty patronizing) presumption throughout that people are ‘out of touch’ and ‘uninformed’ about agriculture is arguably reflective of his own limited view. I suspect that, like me, many readers will have seen through this uncritical attempt to dress up the further…
Make this A Greener Holiday Season
A Greener World (AGW) certifies and supports hundreds of independent, sustainable farmers across North America. Our network of farmers offers thousands of products that make wonderful additions to any holiday season. Are you looking for verified high-welfare and sustainable ingredients for holiday meals? Want to purchase gifts for loved ones that don’t cost the Earth and directly support the farming families that produced them? Then we invite you to keep reading! Choose from high-welfare meat and poultry for memorable holiday…
Burning Desire
Zach and Christina Menchini own Campfire Farms, 30 acres of pasture and woodland near Mulino in Oregon in the foothills of the Cascades. How did you get into farming? Christina and I both lived in New York City in our 20s. We were avid farmers’ market customers and cared deeply about animal welfare, climate change, and nutritious food. Along the way, we started learning about the problems in modern agriculture and left New York, eager for a lifestyle change…
