Homegrown Stories is a storytelling project from our partners at Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC). It celebrates the hardworking people in our food system trying to do things right. The people of these stories are hard at work to create diverse, wholesome, regional food systems in our communities. They feature people working hard to keep the land healthy and their communities nourished. WORC gave us permission to repost these farmers’ Homegrown Stories here in an effort to change the narrative of agriculture in America. ‘We Take Last Place’: North Dakota Residents Fight Industrial Dairy Threat to Land and Legacy 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 written without them—one where industrial agriculture takes priority over people, and water, air, and farmland are left at risk. Just outside Abercrombie, in between the Red and Wild Rice rivers, a 12,500-head corporate dairy operation is slated to break ground. The company behind it, Riverview LLP, has already signaled plans to expand to 19,000 cows. Residents like Mary and … Continue reading Homegrown Stories: North Dakota Residents Fight Industrial Dairy Threat to Land and Legacy