People working hard for homegrown prosperity.
Homegrown Stories is a storytelling project. It celebrates the hardworking people across the west doing things right. The people of these stories are creating community-based food systems, investing in clean energy economies and jobs, supporting just transition work, and fighting for a sustainable future.
We feature people working hard for homegrown prosperity.
The farmers, ranchers, consumers, and workers we feature on Homegrown Stories have made a choice to care for the land, the people who eat their food, and the sustainability of their communities. They’re creating a more robust, vibrant, and secure rural America through renewable energy and just transition work.
Encouraging others starts with sharing stories.
This is #HomegrownStories
Farmers and ranchers, farm and food workers feed us and drive their rural communities.
Clean energy is the future of rural power. These are the people making it a reality.
Indigenous foodways are critical components to healthy Native communities. These are the people ensuring that wisdom is not lost.
“Industrial agriculture isn’t any different than any other big corporate interest. They’re not out here to benefit the communities. No matter what their PR people say, that’s not what their motivation is.”
— Mitch Wolgamott, Oregon Rural Action
El lanzamiento de V2C, de izquierda a derecha: Juan Saldana, Samantha Guerrero, Irene Ruiz, Ester Ceja, Marielena Vega, Christina Stucker-Gassi, Carrie Seymour, y Zoe Ann Olson. Se estima que más de 3 millones de trabajadores del campo inmigrantes y por temporada cosechan alimentos en los Estados Unidos. Los trabajadores del…
Above: Mary and David Stahl on their family farm. In the wide open farmland outside the quiet town of Abercrombie, ND, generations of families have built lives reliant on the health of the surrounding land. But today, many of them are staring down a future that feels like it’s being…
It started with a small plot of land, barely a 1/16th of an acre, nestled near Old City Park in Moab, Utah. The soil was dry, the space was limited, but for Dyan Fadgen and Nicole Kreiser, it was enough. Enough to plant seeds—both into the ground and about what’s…
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