Barn in Benton County, AR.©  Lisa R. Pruitt (2011) If you're a young woman on TikTok, the algorithm likely feeds you some flavor of ...

The blog’s most recent post  discussed the Rural Health Transformation Program . Passed as part of Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” this “r...

Truck delivering rice plants in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, May 2025 I traveled to Japan for the first time in late May, which happen...

Many rural communities in the Pacific Northwest grew up around a once-thriving timber industry. Almost all timber harvesting operations are ...

I attended my first concert at five years old. I remember enthusiastically dancing and singing along to The Wiggle’s “Fruit Salad,” a hit th...

Efforts to develop offshore wind infrastructure off the coast of California have run into a confluence of Trump administration priorities: r...

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, migration to rural areas has substantially increased. From 2019 to 2023, large urban areas like N...

A new report  by Gregory Weaver of Fresnoland on California’s Williamson Act adds to the unrelenting stream of news about the disproportiona...

Access to water is becoming more of a challenge in California, especially for rural communities in the Central Valley. Many rural families a...

I n February 2020, the Belgian federal government reformed property law, more specifically, Book III of the Civil Code on goods. Later, Lan...

This (public) land is your land - or is it? That is the question in a dispute between a group of hunters and a wealthy landowner in Wyoming...