Today's announcement has the potential to make wind energy more accessible inMaine, according to USDA Rural Development Maine State DirectorRhiannon Hampson. "This partnership betweenUSDAandDOEcreates new funding, technical assistance, and research and development opportunities," said Director Hampson. "I...
USDA home loansare backed by the US Department of Agriculture (hence the name) to promote economic development in rural areas of the U.S. When people own homes, they purchase home-related goods and services and tend to stay in the neighborhood longer. ...
For the past year and a half, I have been attempting to wrangle the last seven years of FMC’s technical assistance around market evaluation (and the last 18 for me) into some sort of timeline and “lessons learned” to present to researchers and partners interested in farmers markets and ...
While urban improvement generally falls under the Department of Housing and Urban Development, USDA covers the farmland and rural communities. If you want to slow the flight of rural people into the bulging cities like Atlanta, it starts with Mrs. Sherrod and others (like me) who haven’t ...