After a 35-year career as a Fortune 500 business executive and economic developer, Jim Coleman has returned to his Kentucky roots to farm.

As urban agriculture continues to grow, composting is being discovered as a way to achieve solid crop growth and nutrition standards.

In fall 2023, three equestrians launched Boss Mares Inc. to better support entrepreneurial women in the Western world through workshops and grants.

Virginia-based nonprofit Restore the Harvest has created an innovative livestock curriculum to enact systemic change in impoverished areas.

Ranchers navigate the historical context and current political challenges of lands that have been in families for generations. 

Ranchers on the border frequently sharing their land with a host of uninvited immigrants, drug runners, human traffickers, and cartels. 

From uninvited MS-13 gang encounters to battling border complexities and environmental perils, Jim and Sue Chilton share their stories from the border.

Teresa Ervin-Springs and Kevin Springs manage TKO Farming in Mississippi, while also helping to ease the learning curves in ag through Ancestral BeKin.

Laura Ann Pollack, who works at Healthy Chesapeake, encourages kids to “try the rainbow” in a food program she started called Color Your Plate.

Melanie Kirby of Zia Queenbees Co., focuses on breeding queen bees to provide beestock for beekeepers in New Mexico and beyond.