Tag: agriculture
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More Bang for Your Duck
California’s wild storms of January-February 2017 sure made this story for Comstock’s magazine a tough one to report: lots of canceled interviews, farms getting evacuated, levees needing to be repaired (and photo shoots rescheduled). But here we go! With photos by Ken James. More Bang for Your Duck After a rough few years, Sacramento Valley…
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A Dry Future Weighs Heavy on California Ag
This summer, I returned to California’s Central Valley to report again on how the state’s historic drought is impacting farmers. Photojournalist Sonya Doctorian joined me. This time, I focused on how farmers are proactively responding and adapting. My story appears in High Country News, and you can read an excerpt below. A big thank you to the…
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American Farming: Age-Old Profession Gets Young, Idealistic Upgrade
It’s the big 0-6! The sixth story in my series on farming and food systems has been published in The Guardian. An excerpt from “America’s new farmers: the age-old profession gets a young, idealistic upgrade,” is below: America’s farmers: the age-old profession gets a young, idealistic upgrade Novice farmers don’t have it easy: in addition to lack of…
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Farming Could Save Veterans, and Vice Versa
Here is the second article in my series on alternative farming and food systems. My first article was on the challenges of urban farming for Earth Island Journal. This time I focus on military veterans and farming for Newsweek. Here’s an excerpt: Farmers Could Save Veterans, and Vice Versa By Sena Christian Mornings are the hardest for…
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My Upcoming Adventure
It’s official! I’ve been named a Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism. I’ll be in Boulder, Colorado, reporting on the growth of small-scale sustainable farms in the American west and their role in transforming domestic food systems. Here’s the press release with information on my fellow, um, fellows.
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