Communities are discovering that they can make their part of the world work better for themselves and better for the planet. The Danone Institute of North America (DINA) is fostering that progress wi

Rural residents can have high rates of depression, substance abuse and completed suicide, and farmers face additional challenges to maintaining their mental health according to Farm Aid. Mental health

Justice Neil Gorsuch in an explanation of the Supreme Court decision to affirm the California law banning the in-state sale of certain pork products derived from breeding pigs confined in stalls so s

If farmers can be good cooks, cooks can be good farmers. Culinary Farmer, Brett Ellis is living proof of that fact with a career that has had him in the kitchen and the farm from the French Laundry i

Collaboration and communication are community building tools of Cooperative Extension where modern engagement goes way beyond kids, cows, sows and plows. Communities sense and seek a better future but

From farms to citizens of the world, inflammation causes disease and makes health impossible. Part of the social milieu that is impacting the body also includes the soil and includes how we treat the

The generally acknowledged number one diet today is the Mediterranean Diet but it's not easy for most people to stay with it day in and day out. A supplemental solution is on hand when three of the h

Over 125 new farm 'spokes' are being established in New England around the Azuluna Farms hub. It's a model that could be replicated where new farmers are needed when current farmers are aging out and

Nature can solve problems for people although people created most of nature's problems in the first place, beginning 10,000 years ago. Tim LaSalle of the Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resili

Delicious food, locally sourced, is featured today in restaurants all over, from large cities to rural small towns, coast to coast and border to border. This is a welcome trend for farmers and consume