Here's a roundup of stories with rural resonance; if you do or see similar work that should be shared on The Rural Blog, email us at heather.chapman@uky.edu.
As pandemic batters rural African-Americans in the South, a doctor and her plant biologist husband make house calls, offer herbal remedies to ease symptoms. Read more here.
Rural Wisconsin embraces hyperlocal food production in community spaces: Read more here.
Federal judge blocks Trump administration move to ease methane emissions for drillers on federal or tribal lands: Read more here.
As economy dips, producing more food at home might help, writes one author. Read more here.
Project to explore digital agriculture's impacts on rural America: Read more here.
A digest of events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism from and about rural America, by the Institute for Rural Journalism, based at the University of Kentucky. Links may expire, require subscription or go behind pay walls. Please send news and knowledge you think would be useful to benjy.hamm@uky.edu.
Friday, July 17, 2020
Quick hits: rural Wisconsin embraces hyperlocal food production; judge blocks rollback of methane emissions rule
Labels:
African Americans,
agriculture,
drilling,
economy,
farming,
food,
food deserts,
gardening,
local food,
methane,
Native Americans,
pandemic,
public lands,
small towns
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