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Small Stipend, Big Ripples: How a Catalyst Investment Transformed Harrisville’s Lakefront Market
The sun has just cleared Lake Huron when Harrisville Harbor Farmers Market manager Laurie Szczesny plants the last welcome banner in the damp grass. The lot is still quiet — just gulls calling from the shore and the steady slap of waves against the breakwall on this...
Latinos and the coming transition in American farming
Today, as a capstone to Hispanic Heritage Month, we hear from Nathan Medina, a former Groundwork staffer who is a career-long advocacy and government affairs professional. Read other Equity Series interviews!—As told to Jeff SmithNATHAN MEDINA: These days there’s so...
What Manoomin means to me
Photo above: Tina Frankenberger As part of our ongoing series of equity interviews, today we hear from Tina Frankenberger, of the Grand Traverse Bay Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians. She shares thoughts about Manoomin, the wild rice that is so important to...