Immokalee, FL, sits 30 miles from glitzy Naples, yet it’s one of the most rent-burdened places in the state. Local nonprofits are teaming up to change that by planning a new community for Immokalee’s agricultural workers.
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Not only does supporting local farms help with your place’s local economy, but it also has the potential to create a flourishing and connected culture of people—as seen in these stories from Brattleboro, VT.
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Oftentimes, people in rural settings drive long distances to bigger towns to find community engagement. This renovated soda fountain shop shows why it’s worth looking for that sense of community a little closer to home.
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Your community may need to reshape how it thinks about community and economic development.
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A drive through Shenandoah National Park, and a look back at its 1930s creation, offers a glimpse into the early era of American car culture, when motoring was a recreational activity with a lighter imprint on the landscape.
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Jennifer Stromsten and Alex Beck are leading economic development efforts in Brattleboro, VT.
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This small town is considering overhauling its main street to embrace walkability and good old-fashioned main street urbanism.
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Two podcast recommendations offer different takes on how the Strong Towns approach can help cities keep the promises they made to the people who live in them.
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When the pandemic shut down our town, I realized how much I'd taken for granted the neighbors who showed up every day to make our community work.
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Our Neighborhood Storyteller’s local farm share has given her access not only to great food, but to great friends, as well.
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These small towns in Kansas are offering land and housing at a steal in an attempt to fortify their shrinking tax bases. What does this mean for the future of rural America?
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The way our highways are built turn whole regions into featureless throughways. Slow down, though, and you’ll find value where you might never have noticed it before.
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As of November 15, Alaska is flush with federal infrastructure money. How should it be spent?
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Billy Altom is an advocate and leader for rural residents with disabilities across the nation.
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Your small town had a 1 in 5,000 chance to receive a reality TV makeover. What can the other 4,999 learn?
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The housing crisis is hitting small, rural towns—often in even more stark and dire ways than in urban areas.
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This excerpt from Beth Hoffman’s Bet the Farm tells how both local economies and farms can benefit from co-ops.
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The generational ranch model has been wobbling since WWII, but here's how one small community in Montana is keeping grazing land as working lands, as well as bolstering opportunities for young producers.
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Technocratic growth management in Florida has failed, and a new conversation is needed. Let's start that conversation now.
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Collier County's standards for new development on rural land repeatedly emphasize “innovative” growth...but when we look at their proposed mega-developments, it's really just business as usual.
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