No Land Farms

In the final episode of No Land Farms, we learn about a waste scheme loved by agribusiness and the fossil fuel industry, discuss climate change impacts, and conclude the series with final thoughts and advice from Delmarva organizers. We hear again from Maria Payan, Monica Brooks, Gabby Ross, Kathy Phillips, and Rebecca Wolf from the earlier episodes, and we meet Tyler Lobdell, a senior attorney at...

In episode 4, we investigate the chicken industry’s influence on the public and policy-makers in Delmarva, and we examine the claim that this factory farm food system feeds the world. The interviews in this episode are continued conversations with Maria Payan, Monica Brooks, Gabby Ross, Craig Watts, Dr. Thurka Sangaramoorthy, Rebecca Wolf, and Rachel Casteel from the previous episodes. More info &...

Episode three dives further into air pollution from Delmarva’s chicken industry and some examples of how governments in the Delmarva region have actively protected the chicken industry’s profits over the health of their citizens and environment. We meet fellow organizer to Maria Payan and senior regional representative at the Socially Responsible Agriculture Project , Rachel Casteel; retired Delma...

How did we get the chicken industry that we have today? What’s it like to be a chicken farmer? How else have people in Delmarva been affected by the region’s concentrated chicken industry? From the debt treadmill of contract farming to water contamination in Millsboro and Salisbury, episode 2 examines these questions with help from Rebecca Wolf, Craig Watts, and the Delmarva organizers we met in e...

What are no land farms? How are people living near and working in chicken production impacted by the industry? In the first episode of the series, we’ll begin to tackle these questions and meet Maria Payan, Monica Brooks, Gabby Ross, and Dr. Thurka Sangaramoorthy. Maria Payan is a co-founder and Executive Director of the Sussex Health and Environmental Network . Gabby Ross is a founder of Concerne...