The road that weaves its way to John Hamner’s Middletown office is little more than a functional strip of asphalt these days. But for a visitor driving along it to see Hamner, the burnt landscape bordering the road is a relentless reminder of the devastating fires that swarmed the area in September.
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Idyllic farmers markets, despite good intentions, leave farmers disillusioned and yearning for reinvention
By Elizabeth Zach, staff writer Lalitha Vish farms a small plot of land in the heart of Silicon Valley and . . .
Who are these women?
In the past three decades the number of women-operated farms has increased substantially in the nation. Between 1978 and 2007, when the last agriculture census was completed, the number of women-operated farms in the U.S. grew from 306,200 to nearly a million. Who are these women? RCAC staff writer and Stanford fellow, Elizabeth Zach, traveled the rural West to find out.
Affordable housing finally acknowledged as key to preventing homelessness in Utah
By Sarah Buck, RCAC project coordinator Utah’s annual statewide Comprehensive Report on Homelessness was recently released and, for the first . . .
Blond ambition: Attorney Megan Beaman pursues housing and social justice for Eastern Coachella Valley residents
Since 2008, when she graduated from the University of Wisconsin’s law school, Beaman has lived in the Coachella Valley and has dedicated herself, wholeheartedly, to bringing affordable and sustainable housing to regional farmworkers living across California’s Coachella Valley.