On this day, it is a wonder to think that we are living through this time where people are choosing to put health over profit. Long the message of activists,...

Do you find yourself with more time to read these days? Here's a rundown of articles (mostly featured on our facebook page during the last month) that are wo...

As untrusting as I am of March weather, in my part of the Midwest we are seeing what looks like May weather. I'm scratching my head a little over the plantin...

Back in the fall, Geez Magazine featured a piece by Brenna Cussen Anglada on the Four Necessity Valve Turners in their Fall Climate Justice Issue. Do you get...

"There’s hope in the world when lots of people are working to protect our relationship with the earth and to try to live in right relationship with creation....

Hi friends, it's been a little while. We are so grateful for your support and care over the last year. On February 4th, we were again together praying and th...

Friday was a global climate strike. Did you take action? There's still time, all this week and into the future. Many of us did, each according to their own a...

These last few months have found me tending my garden, putting lots of miles on my running shoes, and spending many hours at the Winona Catholic Worker. Our ...

I spent the last week with 15 high school and 7 college students at the Loras College Peace Institute, learning together about the myriad ways of creating pe...

In Wisconsin, I am in the full swing of summer on a farm. Things that I find myself doing include washing clothes by hand, taking care of beehives with other...

Since only one of the Valve Turners has a Facebook account, most of you have been interacting with me through all of the content on the FB page. Our support ...

My life on the farm has been active and gratifying these summer months, as we install a permanent fencing paddock network for our rotational grazing system, w...

I'm Maria, the human delivering these website updates to your inbox. When I'm not tinkering with the website, I'm usually growing organic vegetables at Lake ...

On May 8th, the Four Necessity Valve Turners appeared in Itasca County Court in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, to give testimony to support their claim that the ne...

Earlier this week we received word that the "contested omnibus hearing" scheduled for tomorrow, May 8th, at 2 pm, was scheduled as such because the prosecuto...

Allyson Polman, one of the Four Necessity Valve Turners, recently had the opportunity to visit California and speak several times. One of the opportunities w...

Interested to hear more from the Valve Turners? You can tune into Viroqua, Wisconsin radio to hear the story of Brenna Cussen-Anglada, one of the Four Necess...

Michelle, Brenna, Allyson, and Daniel each have one additional felony charge proposed to be added to their current misdemeanor and felony charges. The new ch...

The 2016 Valve Turners cases are largely wrapped up, but Ken Ward, a dedicated climate activist, is still appealing his case. The most recent finding of the ...