Berry’s writings about love and limits give us language to understood that growth and grief happen together and transform each other.

A new system of labor is concentrating power with corporate agriculture and away from self-organized farmworker crews.

Native communities are hoping for the best but preparing for the worst in the upcoming midterm elections. Some are advising ...

Data centers, the economy and health care are forcing rural voters to reckon with a Republican incumbent in one of the ...

The movement to ban glyphosate grows but some Democratic leaders and environmental groups are reluctant to regulate ...

Your independent source for rural and small town news. Barn Raiser connects local and national perspectives through a network of writers and contributors who live in and care about rural and small ...

Ahliya Roy is a 5th generation Mainer, Maine School of Science and Mathematics student and Rural Youth Organizer for JustME for JustUs, a grassroots organizing nonprofit in Maine.

In Aroostook County, Maine’s largest and northernmost county, youth organizers are attempting to reach young people, ages 15-30, which make up 15% of the population. The county, population 67,000, is ...

Today’s data center proponents argue such projects bring needed jobs and a boost to local economies. Rural America has heard confident pitches like these before. Nearly 40 years ago, concentrated ...