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What was life like on Minnesota’s ‘poor farms’?

Listen and subscribe to our Curious Minnesota podcast: Apple Podcasts | Spotify A century ago, before the federal government provided social services, most of Minnesota’s counties ran poor farms to ...
OPB

Oregon counties once used poor farms to care for their neediest residents

Oregon once required counties to take care of their neediest residents. For decades, relief institutions known as “poor farms” operated throughout the state. They provided food, shelter, medical care ...
Yahoo

I left city life to marry a farmer and move to a 100-year-old prairie farm. It was the best decision I've ever made.

I had a great life in Edmonton, Canada, but when I fell in love with a farmer, I decided to leave the city. I moved to a small prairie farm where there are more cows than humans, and I haven't looked ...
Reuters

Abandoned by banks, Indonesia's poor farmers turn to crowdfunding

KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indonesian poultry farmer Yohanes Sugihtononugroho faced ruin four years ago when plummeting prices forced him to slaughter all 100,000 of his chickens and ...