Residents were celebrating the fifth anniversary of a major achievement that could inspire similar communities across the country: The day they began to take more control of their lives.

September/October 2016

Written By Mai Nguyen of CCCD, published in Rural Cooperatives magazine, a USDA publication

WITH THE MEDIAN U.S. FARMER’S AGE being 59 and waves of farmers heading into retirement, who will grow our food? Who will maintain the United States’ status as the world’s largest agricultural producer?