While the media is full of details about how the capture of Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores was organized, one should focus on how strange this act is: Venezuela is now de facto occupied by ...

Editors Note: As we enter 2026, Barn Raiser marks the New Year by republishing “Finding Common Ground at a Montana Barn Raising,” an excerpt from Daniel Kemmis’s 1992 Community and the Politics of ...

In his memoir, the author courageously shares his story, in particular, his dad’s story and his struggles keeping the dairy farm in Canaseraga, a rural town in Upstate New York. It is a story of ...

In 2025, Barn Raiser made a commitment to stories of resilience and resistance in rural America. Telling such stories meant responding to rapid and fundamental shifts in federal policy, helping rural ...

It’s dusk on a cool fall evening. As the sky darkens, a delighted audience of about 40 is treated to the cascading howls of wolves. Wailing in the far reaches of the red and gold forest around us are ...

In the windswept plains and rolling hills of northeastern North Dakota, Ramsey County is home to approximately 560 U.S. military veterans. Stutsman County, located to the south, has roughly 1,500 ...

For the first time in l00 years the Klamath River is dam free. For thousands of years the Klamath—winding 257 miles from the volcanic Cascade Range in southern Oregon to where it meets the Pacific ...

This is the second story in a two-part series on the public history of trees, centered on the essay collection Branching Out: The Public History of Trees. Read the first part here. Until the 20th ...

“You are forbidden to go to Old Hickory,” Brian Dempsey’s mother told him as a child in the Mississippi Delta. So, of course he went—though not right away. He describes Old Hickory as “an island of ...

Anna Sekine works as the Midwest Farmland Associate at American Farmland Trust. In this role, she supports programs focused on farmland protection, next-generation land access, and farm transfer ...

This article draws from the author’s research for her book Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America, which examines health care in rural immigrant communities on Maryland’s Eastern ...

On a sunny day in late April, Barbara Damrosch, 83, stepped into boots and out the back door into the stone courtyard of her home in Brooksville, Maine. Thyme crept over the tidy rock pathways and ...