The landscape of recovery in rural America is “a story of small victories and people who won’t give up on their neighbors.”
Posted inEnvironment
In a Sustained Drought, Water Solutions Grant Funds Agricultural Innovation in Rural Colorado
Walk into Pueblo Seed and Food Co on a Friday afternoon in Cortez, Colorado, and you’ll be met with a wall full of bread that looks a little different than bread at the supermarket. The Pueblo Brick, for instance, is a loaf made with rye flour, einkorn (an ancient grain), and blue corn, topped with […]
Posted inEnvironment
BLM Adopts Rule Described as a ‘Generation-Defining’ Shift for America’s Largest Land Manager
This story was originally published by Montana Free Press. The Bureau of Land Management on Thursday adopted a long-awaited rule that aims to put conservation initiatives “on equal footing” with oil and gas leasing, grazing and other commercial uses of federal land. The rule “combines our ongoing work with a vision for conservation to help us manage […]
Posted inRural Life
Accidental Rancher: The Fussiest Season
It happens every spring. The best laid plans dashed by unpredictable weather, equipment malfunctions, illness, or most likely all three. But really, the truth behind why spring always gets crazy when you are working on a ranch or farm is that there’s more to do than can be done. Every year we must go through […]
Posted inGrowth and Development
Q&A: What is Heirs Property?
Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you see here? You can join the mailing list at the bottom of this article and receive more conversations like this in your inbox each week. […]
Posted inTribal Affairs
Medicaid Unwinding Deals Blow to Tenuous System of Care for Native Americans
This story was originally published by KFF Health News. About a year into the process of redetermining Medicaid eligibility after the Covid-19 public health emergency, more than 20 million people have been kicked off the joint federal-state program for low-income families. A chorus of stories recount the ways the unwinding has upended people’s lives, but […]
Posted inMedia
Broken Promises and ‘Broken Justice’ in the Rust Belt
“American Rust” offers a portrait of post-industrial towns that some might dismiss as “misery porn,” but there are flickers of hope and intrigue amid the gloom.
Posted inArts and Culture
State Poet Laureates Write Rural Into Their Rhyme Schemes
Recently, Barbara Smith’s son Jason was playing a game of pool with his buddies in Wyoming when he abruptly left the game to attend his mother’s poetry reading. “The other men came with him and they were surprised and I think happy to be there,” Smith recalls. “I don’t think they had been at a […]
Posted inWorld
‘Society of the Snow’ Shows Us How Far We’ll Go to Survive
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Keep It Rural, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Like what you see? Join the mailing list for more rural news, thoughts, and analysis in your inbox each week. Hear reporter Claire Carlson narrate her column on Keep It Rural, a series from the Rural Remix podcast. Stripped of our […]
Posted inJustice
Rural Victims of Intimate-Partner Violence Need More Resources and Support, Study Finds
While intimate-partner violence is a problem in all areas of the country, victims in rural communities need more resources and support, a new study has found. The study from the University of Minnesota’ Rural Health Research Center found that rural victims of intimate-partner violence, or IPV, face more barriers and resource limitations that could affect […]
Posted inAgriculture
Can a Farm Generate Solar Power and Blueberries at Once?
This story was originally published by the Maine Monitor. Paul Sweetland brings a bucket-like object with him to work on a blueberry farm in Rockport — not to collect Maine’s hallmark fruit, but to protect his head. That’s because this farm is a little unusual: Looming over the narrow rows of wild blueberries are 8-foot-tall […]