The future of food & farming
Challenges to farming
Farmers always have faced serious challenges from nature, enduring storms and foul weather, discomfort and sometimes danger. Pride in coaxing nutritious and flavorful foods from the land compensates for long hours and low pay.
Today, family-scale farms are struggling more than ever to survive as policies favor agribusinesses and industrial-scale fields and feedlots.
Some of the most serious challenges to sustaining our farm communities include attracting new farmers, soil and farmland preservation, and colony collapse disorder for bees.