The New Farm Family

The Swanton Berry Farm

Metal Desert

text and photograph by Peter McBride

A photographer examines the plundering of metals and minerals in some of the poorest, most desolate places on Earth.

The Klamath Debacle

by Seth Zuckerman

Protecting endangered fish adversely affects thousands of farmers.

Compromise, Hell!

by Wendell Berry

A nation founded on freedom has become uncharacteristically submissive to those who would destroy it. Here's where we draw the line.

High-Tech Wasteland

by Elizabeth Grossman

It's the Information Age! So why can't we find information on what to do with our obsolete hardware?

Profits of Place

by Josh Harkinson

Is a kinder, gentler form of globalization really possible? Absolutely!

More is Not the Answer

The Agrarian Standard

by Wendell Berry

Agrarianism seems to be losing ground against industrial agriculture, but it remains the only land use practice that is both viable in the long-term and democratic. Twenty-five years after the publication of his seminal work, "The Unsettling of America," Berry examines what has come to pass in the interim.

The New Economy of Nature

by Gretchen C. Daily and Katherine Ellison

The labor of nature has always been thought of as free. But a new economy that values natural systems is beginning to take shape.

Microbial Migrations

by Hilary French and Brian Halweil

Two million people cross a national boundary every day, and with them travel food, insects, and the bacteria that cause diseases like foot and mouth. So what can we do about it?

Thoughts in the Presence of Fear

by Wendell Berry

A response to the attacks of 9/11 by Wendell Berry.

The Idea of a Local Economy

by Wendell Berry

The principles of neighborhood and subsistence will be disparaged by the globalists as "protectionism" - and that is exactly what it is.