In 1875, Huron County purchased land to build a poor farm, which took two years and $4,000 to complete. Today, the land would have cost $17,000 and the project would have cost $120,000 to build.

Jovanny Hernandez / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The situation is shockingly dystopian: We’re killing off America’s family farms while becoming overreliant on foreign food. In 2025, we’re ...

OPB premiered a new documentary that examines the history of government-funded relief institutions in Oregon – known as “poor farms” – that helped care for the state’s most vulnerable ...