The Resilience Project has studied a number of resilient farms and local food systems. You can probably learn the most about resilience by exploring how others have created resilient communities.
Below is the full collection of case studies we’ve generated. All of these stories cover at least five years of resilience, some more than 40. Take time to read and enjoy them.
Arkansas
–Hardin Family -The Glue That Can’t Un-glue
–Searcy County, AR – There is only one Local
–Lessons from a network of new agrarians in Central Arkansas
Kentucky
Will Bowling and 140 years of transformation in Clay County, Kentucky
Strip mines and agritourism at the Conways in Breathitt County, Kentucky
Maintaining Diversity the Bill Best way
Turning played out land into a resilient farm: the Hoffmans of Owsley County, Kentucky
Education for resilient agriculture in a poor rural county in Appalachia
Local self-organization of value-added processing Jackson County Kentucky
Local research and demonstration for resilience at Quicksand, Kentucky
Resilience research at University of Kentucky organic farm
Bringing resilient systems to isolated farms Kentucky State University
Shakertown: demonstrating resilience since 1805
Louisiana
-Cattle and timber and family make for resilience along the river
–Turning a pine barrens into tomatoes and watermelons
Mississippi
–Beat 4, Forty Years a Cooperative
–Connectivity and Redundancy: Mississippi Sustainable Agriculture Network
–Oxford, MS – Memory and Revolt
-Real Milk in Philadelphia, Mississippi
-Pollinating and Queen Bees in a Resilient System
-Indigenous resilience: the Mississippi Choctaw
-Where everyone knows your name: Neshoba County
Tennessee
–Sewanee, TN – The Food System Revival
– Chattanooga, TN – Growing the “Sustainable Blue Collar Town”
– Nashville: biodynamic farm network
Texas
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