November 7, 2025
Interview source for Sean Baker’s “Curious Minnesota” article, “What was life like on Minnesota’s poor farms?” (article link). Published by the Minnesota Star Tribune.
November 6, 2025
Panel presentation with some of my co-authors in Gleanings from the Field. “Gleanings from the Field: Collaborations and Partnerships in Food-Based Community Engagement” (video link). Hosted, recorded and archived by Seed Coalition.
November 1, 2025
Panel presentation on current project, A Public Study of the Rice County Poor Farm, at the “TREC Research Cluster Showcase.” I presented on behalf of my co-researchers incarcerated at the Faribault prison along with facilitators of two other Resesarch Cluster projects. Facilitated by Emily Oliver and hosted by Eastside Freedom Library.
April 2025
Chapter, “Pedagogy for a Public Geography of Poor Farms” (open access/downloadable link), published in the edited academic volume, Gleanings from the Field: Food Security, Resilience, and Experiential Learning (open access/downloadable link). Edited by Dan Trudeau, Bill Moseley and Paul Schadewald. Published by Lever Press. I give an overview of this chapter here.
May 2023
Public versions of student presentations by Macalester College students in my course, “Unearthing the Poor Farm: Local geographies of land, law and livelihoods” are available on this dedicated page.
The Spring 2022 group on the Ramsey County Poor Farm presented at the Midwestern Undergraduate Geography Symposium (MUGS) at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter and at the Eastside Freedom Library in Saint Paul. The Spring 2023 group presented on the Hennepin County Poor Farm at the Midwestern Undergraduate Symposium (MUGS) at University of Saint Thomas in Saint Paul and at the Hopkins Public Library in Hopkins.
April 2023
Promotional story was published about my course, “Unearthing the Poor Farm: Local geographies of land, law and livelihoods,” called Grounding the Poor Farm. Written by Talia Bank with photos by John Schoolmeesters and published by Macalester College.