Maryland’s blue crab workers exercise agency even in systems that extract maximum value from their labor and minimize their presence.

Connor Barnes brings his butchering craft straight to small-time livestock farmers via a custom-made box truck, a relief to many in a consolidated industry.

Iowa elected officials are preparing to trash 60% of the state’s historical archives with no transparency or input from the public.

The Long-Time Union Organizer Leading a New Wave of Rural Organizing “When people work together across differences it’s good for the community” ...

What You Can Do to Save the Birds An Ohio artist’s bold project is a timely reminder of what we can do to protect birds—and ourselves ...

Joel Bleifuss is Barn Raiser Editor & Publisher and Board President of Barn Raising Media Inc. He is a descendent of German and Scottish farmers who immigrated to Wisconsin and South Dakota in the ...

This six-part series on rural immigrant experiences draws from Thurka Sangaramoorthy’s research for her book Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America, which examines health care in ...

Margarida Jorge is the executive director of Health Care for America Now!, a D.C.-based coalition of around 50 national and state grassroots organizations that advocates for quality, affordable access ...

Keeping Farmland in Farmers’ Hands Farm transfers are complex. Anna Sekine helps farmers pass their land to the next generation.

I am a small, organic vegetable farmer in southern Maine, in the town of Topsham, where I grew up. For the past 15 years, our farm has worked with U.S. Department of Agriculture to help build ...

As the race for the next chair of the Democratic Party heats up, candidates make their cases on how to get rural voters back to the party.

The USDA-funded Managing Pasture for Healthy Farms and Soils Across Vermont aims to help farmers implement sustainable grazing practices.