Healthy Food Just Got a Big Boost in the New Farm Bill
A program that doubles the spending power for food stamp recipients who buy fresh produce just got more funding.
Sustainable food and farming
The Surprising Links Between Family Dinner and Good Health
Adults who prepare quality meals for children are offering something more important than a nutrition lesson.
The Fight Against Food Waste Starts at Home
Decreasing the environmental footprint of food waste can save the planet and your wallet.
10 Podcasts That Every 猫咪社区 Nerd Should Listen To
These shows inspire, teach, advocate, and provoke.
A Good-for-Nothing Tree Makes Good
Once upon a time, mesquite got no respect. Now this desert survivor is celebrated as a sustainable food source and a symbol of the borderlands.
What School Lunches Have to Do With Fixing Wealth Inequality
Dismantling a capitalist food system could begin with schools, which nationwide spend about $3 billion on food contracts.
Call for Submissions: The Soil Issue
Send us your leads and pitches by Nov. 1.
Women in Male-Dominated Harvest Industry Help Each Other
HarvestHER establishes a community for women, recognizing stresses and loneliness of life in conventional agriculture.
Locals Unite to Stop Hog Farms From Polluting Their Community
More than 40 families in Iowa are fighting to contain the spread of concentrated animal feeding operations.
5 Ways Small Actions Have Huge Power
To those who take the bus or refuse plastic toothbrushes: Don鈥檛 listen to the cynics. Research shows the little things matter.
Patience Gray鈥檚 Italian Slow Food Education
Foraging for weeds and mushrooms with a visionary of the sustainable food movement.
This Chef Is Fighting Gentrification With Hot Chicken
Tunde Wey鈥檚 dinner series-slash-public art project raised $50,000 to address Nashville鈥檚 affordable housing crisis.
Berry Farmers Break Free From Big Agriculture
These farmworkers created an organic co-op that guarantees fair wages and healthy working conditions while preserving indigenous heritage.
Before You Try to Decolonize Your Diet, Read This
A new book digs into the paradoxes of American Indian diets most people don鈥檛 know.
Tomato Canning as Protest: How a Community Resisted Corporate Farming
A Missouri town鈥檚 summer ritual brings much-needed support to small family operations.
A Community of Slave Descendants Is Protecting Unique Food Traditions from Rising Seas
One chef is raising the profile of Gullah/Geechee cuisine to help maintain the Nation鈥檚 cultural identity.
A Brief History of the Feral Blackberry
The Himalayan blackberry was introduced to North America as a food crop. Like a Gremlin doused with water, it escaped its confinement and became almost impossible to eradicate.
5 Reasons Salmon Are an Environmental Justice Solution
We need wild salmon鈥攁nd not just because they鈥檙e tasty. They are an indicator of ecosystem health.
The Push to Turn Church Land Into Farmland
Faith leaders, conservation experts, and food advocates are joining forces to connect young farmers to the vast quantity of land owned by churches.
Immigrant Farmers Revive Dormant Greenhouse to Grow Food From Home
At a small farmers market south of Seattle, you鈥檒l find varieties of ethnic vegetables unlikely sold in your typical supermarket.
Cooking Stirs the Pot for Social Change
Preparing food鈥攁nd letting others in our communities cook for us鈥攊s how we become good citizens who engage with the communities around us.
Farming as Resistance
Threatened by a mining company, indigenous women in the remote highlands of Guatemala are marching, increasing productivity, and planting trees.
Senate鈥檚 Farm Bill Moves Forward鈥擝ut What Is It, Anyway?
From food assistance for the poor to subsidies for a corporate food system, the nation鈥檚 next farm bill is taking shape.
How to Save Heirloom Tomato Seeds
Heirlooms are irresistible, not just because they鈥檙e delicious, but because growing them defies capitalism.
Ever Wonder How Rainfall Affects Your Peanut Butter Sandwich Habit?
Climate change will impact agriculture and food supplies. That鈥檚 why this digital classroom is teaching food literacy.
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