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Eloy and Anita Roybal raise Certified Animal Welfare Approved by A Greener World (AGW) laying hens on pasture and range at Monte Azul Farms in Mora, New Mexico. They are members of Los de Mora Local Growers’ Cooperative, Inc., a…
A physician by trade, Wayne LeClair began farming in 1990 after attending conferences across the country to learn more about the many health benefits of eating beef raised on pasture. “I was excited to discover so much recent research that…
Ashlee Kleinhammer and her partner, Steven Googin, raise Certified Animal Welfare Approved by A Greener World (AGW) beef cattle and dairy cows at North Country Creamery on 112 acres of half-wooded land in Keeseville, New York. After graduating in 2006,…
Veronica comes from a long line of farmers in Buena Vista, New Mexico. About 60 years ago, factors began pulling the family away from the farm and forcing them to sell off the larger pieces of their land. After moving…
Cynthia and Ira Houseweart have deep roots in Colorado cattle ranching. Cynthia’s great-grandfather, Edward Ulysses Butterfield, and his brother, Charles, were successful ranchers in the late 19th and early 20th century in Phillips County, and controlled many sections of the…
Yet another industry assurance about the safety of the controversial practices used in intensive livestock production has been exposed as a falsehood. Hot on the heels of recent public health and environmental scares associated with industrial livestock farming—including the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, ractopamine residues in pork, and arsenic residues in poultry meat—new scientific research on an anabolic steroid which is routinely used in industrial beef production in the U.S. is causing alarm.
Walker Farm sits at the foot of Whortleberry Hill with land in the towns of New Braintree, West Brookfield and North Brookfield, Massachusetts. “The farm has an incredible history,” explains farmer Joan Walker. “It is on an original Land Grant…
Glynwood Center Farm is situated within Fahnestock State Park in the Hudson Highlands, a few miles east of Cold Spring, New York. The 225-acre farm was originally purchased back in 1929 by the Perkins family. As a result of the…
Longest Acres Farm is situated near Chelsea, the shire town of Orange County, VT. Owners Nick Zigelbaum and Kate Maclean are relatively new to farming: “We had wanted our own farm ever since we quit our office jobs and our…
With over three decades of ranching experience—from north to south Florida—the Sampson family knows livestock! Jeff and Janet Sampson, along with their son, Jared, and daughter, Jessica, raise a growing herd of Certified Animal Welfare Approved by A Greener World…
Two separate but very much related events that could radically change the way America farms and feeds itself are big in the news right now. Both concern a matter dear to my heart: Food labeling. As leading food and ag writer, Tom Philpott, recently wrote, the upcoming vote in California on Proposition 37 “could spur a revolution in the way our food is made.” If adopted, Prop 37 would simply require the labeling of food containing genetically modified (GM) ingredients.
For over 50 years, TK Ranch has been committed to taking care of the wild prairie and producing quality beef for Albertans. Situated about a three-hour drive southeast of Edmonton, 10,000-acre TK Ranch is located in the endangered northern fescue…
