Strengthening urban and peri-urban food systems to achieve food security and nutrition, in thecontext of urbanization and rural transformation, is the latest report from the […]

2022 was the third season of the Citizen Science cover crop project. This report details findings from the effort. In 2020, 2021, and 2022, farmers […]

Wondering how managed livestock grazing can contribute to justice in the food system? There is a growing call to transform the U.S. food system so […]

Jim Teal, a PhD student in the UW Department of Applied Economics, is one of 15 graduate students selected to join a year-long program to […]

The USDA’s North Central Region-Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (NCR-SARE) program released its annual call for Research and Education Grant Preproposals, available online at http://www.northcentralsare.org/Grants/Our-Grant-Programs/Research-and-Education The […]

Milk with Dignity is a worker-centered social responsibility campaign. The first of its kind in the dairy industry, Milk with Dignity defines and enacts a system of fair labor standards for milk produced for Ben & Jerry’s.

These reference cards summarize basic rights for farmworkers and food workers. Feel free to download, print and disseminate the printer-friendly versions, which are designed as double-sided, tri-fold cards.

Fresh market vegetable growers with multiple crops and markets make numerous, complex production and marketing decisions. The Veggie Compass farm management tool was developed to help farmers make these decisions, based on data gleaned from their farm operations.

Farmers Tony and Dela Ends want their farm to sustain the land and their family. They began selling subscriptions to their Community
Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm in 1994. They also wanted to successfully integrate
livestock production into their farm through a value-added, direct marketing enterprise. Their goal was to do this in ways that respect the scale of a small family farm, satisfy their
commitments to stewardship, and eliminate the need for off-farm income.

Farmers wishing to capitalize on the trend of increased consumption of white meat can consider raising chickens. But for many, a conventional commercial chicken operation’s […]