Kansas City, Mo., has a heart, and it’s made out of trees.
Since 1990, a heart-shaped forest near the Kansas City International Airport has represented...
If you’ve ever spent the summer near a freshwater lake or river, chances are you’ve noticed them. Clinging to windshields, storefront windows and streetlights,...
Welcome to episode five of Greener Pastures, a Midstory podcast on the future of farming in the Midwest. In this episode, dive into Michigan’s fishery, an industry that put the state on the map, but has since begun to flounder. In response to rampant overfishing in the mid-20th century, the state’s Department of Natural Resources limited what commercial fishing operations could catch, and gave more freedom to recreational fishers to access and steward the resource. Today, only a handful of licensed fishing businesses remain in operation. What exactly are they up against, and is there a future for commercial catch in the Great Lakes State?
It took more than 30 years for Earth Heart Farms to become a wetland wildlife refuge and an educational site. It took decades prior for the owners of the farm to reform their perspective on land stewardship. The seeds of Earth Heart’s transformation were sown well over a century ago, when Vicki-Rae Harder-Thorne’s ancestors first settled in Oak Harbor, Ohio.
