in the balance: yong rueb
An excerpt from our feature about female farmers in the Baja Arizona Region, originally published in Edible Baja Arizona
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'If there's no water, what's the point?' Female farmers in Arizona
Arizona has the highest proportion of female farmers – but conditions in this dry desert landscape aren’t easy, and rural isolation has created a tapestry of challenges
Arizona has the highest proportion of female farmers – but conditions in this dry desert landscape aren’t easy, and rural isolation has created a tapestry of challenges
Read Morethe producer: micha ide, bright ide acres
Everyone seems to understand that farmers are underpaid, but many people don't seem to understand the significance of that. We are tremendously underpaid for the amount of work we do, and for what we produce.
Read Morethe gray girl farms: kylie gray
“It is a great livelihood and career. But it makes you feel everything. In the last year I have been so happy, just to be so disappointed. I’ve worried how I will pay my bills. I have also been excited for growth, I have seen my new ideas come to life. I guess I am just proud to see my hard work and ideas turn into something.”
Read Morethe good daughter: vikki cha
I wish people understood that no flower, plant, vegetable, or human being is perfect. Everything in life is imperfectly perfect.
Read Morethe counselor: transitional resources
Sometimes they ask me, “Are we giving the garden a haircut today?” Or, my favorite, “Can we grow french fries?” And my answer is, always, “Actually, yes, we can grow french fries.
Read Morethe fourth generation: erickson farm
"With great freedom comes great responsibility." -this lifestyle is phenomenal...but it is not quite as simple as a the beautiful pictures you see on social media. It is great to be my own boss - and work with my family every day but it is not all beautiful scenes. It is far more stressful and complex than that.
Read Moretaking the initiative: county rail farm
"I feel incredibly lucky - privileged - to be able to farm. Like a number of new farmers, I come from a family that expected me to be a doctor, lawyer, academic, etc"
Read Morethe gastronome: les sourciers in france
"I have to be very patient and tolerant with all our clients that don’t understand that you can not force nature to give you strawberries in winter, or that are mad at us because the winter veggies popped into flowers with this hot spring."
Read Morethe rooftop farmer - eagle street farm
Annie Novak, founder of Eagle Street Rooftop Farm
"Farming is far more nuanced than most people know or look into. We like soundbites and labels. Even the word “organic” can carry a thousand different stories with it. Our approach to food incredibly shallow. In large part, the reason I stuck to urban farming as a career path is because farming right in the public gaze was the best way to share a complete story."
Read Morethe daughter of peanut farmers: an interview with krysta harden
USDA Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden
During my discretionary time, my work is concentrated on implementing the Farm Bill, answering the question: who will be farming next? And helping lift up and connect our women in agriculture.
Read Morethe politician - beemsterbeleving in holland
Rona Uitentuis is a young woman who at only 31 is making a name for herself in the Netherlands as a dairy farmer, cheese maker and farm policy advocate.
Read Morethe cultivators: amber waves farm
Two women farmers are doing something remarkable in East Hampton - growing wheat.
Read Morethe greenhorn: one leaf farm
Like many other young and new farmers, land ownership is a financial barrier of entry that could potentially have Rand hanging up her tractor keys and changing careers.
Read Morethe agrarian - growing things farm
Michaele Blakely celebrating harvest season
"It’s still a man’s world. I’ve been farming as a profession for 25 years, and it took a long time before men took me seriously."
Read Morethe virtuoso - harmony fields farm
"The work and energy input required to grow food is chronically underestimated. Farming is and always will be hard and teaching the work ethic that is required to make a farm successful in not valued in our culture."
Read Morethe champion: háafell in iceland
Jóhanna Bergmann Þorvaldsdóttir, a former nurse, has singlehandedly saved the Icelandic Goat Breed.
Read Morethe idealist: reverence farm
It’s a life that she approaches each day with as much careful thought, passion and energy as she did Capitol Hill days, but now her ideas and ideals will change the world from the ground up.
Read Morethe artisan: glendale shepherd farm and creamery
Lynn has created an artisan livelihood built on the seasons--one she calls worth working hard for.
Read Morethe scientist: bushy tail farm
“ I would compare my approach to (farming as) a conversation rather than an experiment with my plants and animals.”
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