When calamity strikes, as it often has in the Appalachian community of Swannanoa, North Carolina, the “proud, fierce, and ...

This story was originally published by Sentient. In Duplin County, North Carolina, there is a pollutant that hangs in the air, the water and the soil. It ...

Family is at the center of Herty’s culinary story. Growing up on the bayous of St. Bernard Parish with a Cajun mom, the ...

Early one late March morning, Farmworker activist and union leader Alfredo Juarez Zeferino was taking his partner to her job ...

An Montezuma School to Farm Project AmeriCorps member teaches a math focused garden class to students. (Photo courtesy of Sorrell Redford) On Friday, April 25, Sorrell Redford, education director for ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has extended the deadline for thousands of rural energy program grantees, who’ve been ...

From isolated mansions to eerie mountains, the backdrop of rural Vermont inspires the bestselling crime novels of author Eric Rickstad.

For about a century – from after the Civil War through, in some places, the 1960s or so – one-room education was the bedrock of rural Ozarks communities.

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This story was originally published by KFF Health News. Sophie Hofeldt planned to receive prenatal care and give birth at her local hospital, 10 minutes ...

This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a ...