When local customers first pull up to Hampton Square in Blue Ridge, Georgia, they may not see the fresh start-up businesses housed in the newly renovated building right away. They may be remembering the Pontiac dealership, the International Harvester tractor showroom, the poultry factory, the skating rink and the antique store that had all, at […]
Bayfront Harvest Festival
Lasting Links In 1990 a group of farmers, social justice activists and local church members got together at the first Local Changes for Global Solutions Conference. The goal of the conference was to provide a forum for discussion of environmental, peace, and justice issues while initiating lasting links between urban and rural communities. Out of […]
Tumbleweed Tours: Sharing rural Nebraska, one tour bus at a time
Sometimes business opportunity blooms right outside your doorstep, down the local county road and back up the gravel road you’ve driven over a thousand times. Such is the case with Tumbleweed Tours, a tourism venture in rural southeast Nebraska launched by Victoria Lipovsky and Kelly Kahman, a pair of farm women who aren’t short on […]
Diné Be’iina and the Black Mesa Weavers for Life and Land
Sheep Is Life Navajo Nation, Arizona · By Gary Paul Nabhan When one first sees a flock of Navajo Churro sheep moving across the sage-covered flats of Navajo Nation lands, it is easy to imagine that they have been here, adapting to this land, since time immemorial. Their colors – buffs, browns, silvery-blues, cream, and […]