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The Boothbay Farmer’s Market has moved around over the past two decades from the Boothbay Region schools parking lot to the Meadow Mall parking lot to the Boothbay Common, and man has it grown. This year there are 21 vendors and I dare you to go to...

A STALWART of the Royal British Legion is planning to march 70km in 70 hours dressed as a First World War soldier to raise money for the Poppy Appeal. John Gree...

A few summers ago, community organizers at Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP) gathered around a vacant parking lot in Chicago Lawn, and brought in plant beds, stools and laid down wood chips in efforts to reactivate the space. As Jasmine Serrano, the health organizer at SWOP, picked up pieces of garbage around the lot, she remembers...

With a solid business plan, hard work and enthusiasm, agritourism can be an option to stay on a farm and create added income, all while providing others a connection to agriculture.

Taking on fast fashion by taking it down

The organizer Hoda Katebi is tackling the global garment industry, not as a reformer but as an abolitionist.

The Take explores the intersection of fashion and politics with activist and blogger Hoda Katebi.

We’re taking a look at how some of the solutions Next City has reported on in the past two years are faring now.

The Empty Ethics of “Shop Small” As economies crater in the pandemic recession, the call to buy “handmade” local goods has gained new force. It’s not that simple. SAI AUNG MAIN/AFP/Getty Images This spring, Marissa Nuncio, director of the Garment Worker Center in Los Angeles, had a Zoom meeting with some of the center’s 300 members. Even during the pandemic, when they were considered essential workers as they made thousands of face masks, the members reported a lack of personal pro...