Storming Forward
Storming Forward With a population 3,958, Emmetsburg blends its quaint charm with both an appreciation for its historic Irish heritage and a modern entrepreneurial spirit, resulting in a community equally balancing quality of live with economic progress.

Revolution Meets Evolution
Fullerton, North Dakota Saving and selecting seeds for years, the Podolls are committed to safeguarding the diversity of plant varieties.

Laughing Onion Farm
Hollister, California · “If you’re a farmworker until you’re sixty years old, either your back breaks, or your spirit does.” That’s what Patrick Troy sees around him in California’s Salinas Valley. People call the region “The Salad Bowl of the World,” but few mention that the area’s agricultural productivity relies on legions of poorly paid laborers. Monterey County’s 70,000 farmworkers and their families comprise 28% of the population, yet most never benefit from the land’s abundance beyond their hourly wages.

Dave Jacobson
Love of the land, wildlife, and a vision of what was there before his grandparents homesteaded his 160-acre family farm motivated David Jacobson of Sauk Centre, Minnesota to return the land to its natural state of wetlands. woodlands, and prairie.

Casa Nueva
Back in 1987, a tiny corner restaurant opened on slanted West State Street in Athens, Ohio. It was different from the other eateries in Athens in one very important way: the cooks, dishwashers, servers and hostesses weren’t just hired help at Casa Nueva, they owned it as members of the Worker-Owned Restaurant Corporation.