Power has always bothered me — or more specifically, powerlessness. I think that the power game of social interactions was something I began playing at a very young age, with the belief that, as a small child, I was the underdog. I remember that when I was five, I attended…

At my family’s small lowbush blueberry farm in late July and early August, the energy is festive. Over a thousand customers come from around the valley with their friends and small children each year to participate in harvesting the year’s blueberries, and most of them have a personal connection to…

Our small farms are good for the world. They provide fresh, healthy food to their communities, they are responsible and caring stewards of their land, and their regenerative farming practices are more friendly to the environment than the practices of large farms growing corn or soy as monocrops with nitrogen…