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Food & Water
5 Super Cute Crafts for Celebrating World School Milk Day
By Heifer International | August 5, 2025
Did you know that September 26 is World School Milk Day? Here are 5 fun and easy activities for celebrating the power of milk in your classroom!
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No Woman Alone
When women farmers organize, opportunity reaches further.
Credit Where It's Due
Give women farmers access to finance — and watch food systems change.
Food, Farmers and the Future
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Climate Heroes
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Lifestyle
Songs Willie Nelson Made Better
By Jason Woods | April 15, 2026
Farm Aid’s 33rd annual music festival — held for the first time in Connecticut — wrapped up this weekend. Farm Aid’s been supporting family farmers in the United States since 1985, and that’s a mission we can certainly get behind. So to celebrate another successful Farm Aid and the release of a new album, here’s a Spotify playlist of Willie Nelson covers, both classic and obscure.
Food & Water
5 Ways to Celebrate World Food Day in Your Classroom
By Heifer International | August 20, 2026
Food & Water
The Terrifying History of Chocolate
By Jason Woods | August 5, 2025
Despite a lifetime of chocolate eating, I couldn’t tell you how it was made, where it came from or really anything about it until a few years ago. Then I visited a chocolate forest in the Bolivian Amazon, where Heifer worked with families managing and harvesting wild cacao.
Animals
5 Ways Animals Help Reduce Global Poverty
By Heifer International | July 10, 2025
Heifer believes livestock has a really important role to play in ending global hunger and poverty. Here are 5 reasons why.
Lifestyle
Review: Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini Will Break Your Heart
By Austin Bailey | August 20, 2026