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Volunteers Noelle Romero (left) and Corinne Smith (right) pull weeds around a row of baby tomato plants and talk about their own gardening ventures during a community work day at the Agroecology Commons farm. (Photo credit: Riley Ramirez)

A Groundbreaking California Farming Collective Navigates the Loss of Federal Grants

By Riley Ramirez

July 29, 2025

Due to cuts by the USDA, Agroecology Commons will offer fewer services to fewer aspiring farmers from underserved communities.

The EPA Canceled These 21 Climate Justice Projects

By Riley Ramirez

July 23, 2025

COACHELLA, CALIFORNIA - JULY 03: Sprinklers water an agricultural field on July 3, 2024 near Coachella, California. A long-duration heat wave is impacting much of California with authorities warning of extreme health and wildfire risks. An excessive heat warning is in effect for all of the Coachella Valley through July 8th with highs forecast of up to 121 degrees. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

What Bees Can Teach Us About Survival and Well-being

By Elena Valeriote

July 21, 2025

Immigrant Farmworkers Win Housing Rights in Vermont

By Riley Ramirez

July 16, 2025

Immigrant community leaders and supporters gather in front of the Vermont State House on Friday, June 13th, to celebrate the passage of S. 127, a new state law protecting immigrant housing rights. The celebration was organized by Migrant Justice, a Vermont-based human rights organization founded and led by immigrant farmworkers. (Photo credit: Terry Allen)

From Bees to Beer, Buckwheat Is a Climate-Solution Crop

By Elena Valeriote

July 8, 2025

A field of flowering buckwheat. A buckwheat plants can produce as many as 2,000 flowers, according to research. Experts recommend planting about 700,000 buckwheat plants per acre.

Farmworkers Heal Climate-Scarred Land With Native Seeds

By Caleb Hampton

July 7, 2025

a film photo of a A crew at Hedgerow Farms hand harvests Lasthenia californica in Winters, CA.

Trump Cuts Threaten Federal Bee Research

July 2, 2025

Bee researchers worry that federal funding cuts jeopardize monitoring of these critical pollinators.

Can This Baltimore Academy Continue to Train Urban Farmers?

June 30, 2025

Denzel Mitchell at Black Butterfly Teaching Farm. (Photo credit: Sam Delgado)

A National Soil-Judging Contest Prepares College Students to Steward the Land

June 24, 2025

An unidentifiable farmer holds soil from a field.

Conservation Work on Farms and Ranches Could Take a Hit as USDA Cuts Staff

June 23, 2025

Ranchers herd cattle across open range in the Sangre de Christo Mountains, New Mexico.

Helping Ramps Flourish Through Forest Farming

May 28, 2025

Close up of a man's hands holding his freshly foraged wild ramps

Civil Eats Included in ‘The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025’

May 21, 2025

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Livestock Producers Seek to Defend Packers and Stockyards Rules from Industry Attack

May 19, 2025

Portrait of a woman working on Montana ranch

This Queer Couple Supports LGBTQ+ and BIPOC Farmers’ Mental Health

By Nicole J. Caruth, Pulizer Center Reporting Fellow

May 14, 2025

A Black woman farmer wearing an orange tank top and khaki pants walks through a field of farmland with brown cows in the background

Civil Eats Nominated for Two James Beard Journalism Awards

By The Civil Eats Editors

May 13, 2025

Nick Tilsen during the Mount Rushmore Land Back Protest. (Photo credit: Willi White)

Could This Arizona Ranch Be a Model for Southwest Farmers?

By Samuel Gilbert

May 12, 2025

Oatman Flats Ranch farm manager Yadi Wang kneels in a field of cover crops planted during fallow periods to help restore soil health and reduce erosion. (Photo Credit: Samuel Gilbert)

Op-ed: Why Most No-Till Agriculture Is Not Actually Regenerative

By Nate Powell-Palm

May 8, 2025

Farmers hands harvesting organic dandelion greens cutting base of stems

Proposal Could Threaten Endangered Species’ Survival in Farm Country

By Brian Calvert

May 7, 2025

A monarch butterfly on tropical milkweed. (Photo credit: Sue Zellers, Getty Images)

The Pork Industry Asks Congress to Overturn Prop. 12, a Divisive Animal Welfare Law, Yet Again

May 6, 2025

Customer selecting packaged meat slices at a supermarket counter. Dressed casually in jeans, she carries a shoulder bag while browsing the meat section. Real-life shopping moment. More than a year after the animal welfare law went into effect, evidence of the pork industry’s ‘crisis’ is hard to find. But another push to overturn the law is in the works.

The Future of California’s Climate-Smart Farming Programs

May 5, 2025

an elder Hmong American woman wearing gloves and a hat stands under an umbrella to string up a produce on a trellis on a farm in California

Oregonians Can Now Taste Local Maple Syrup–and Learn to Make It

By Elena Valeriote

April 30, 2025

A group of people sit in a shedlike indoor/outdoor area in the woods wearing beanies and jackets listening to a woman explain how to tap bigleaf maple trees

Agroforestry Projects Across US Now Stymied by Federal Cuts

By Daniel Walton

April 28, 2025

lush green trees on a rows of farmland with brown and black and white cows in a bunch in one area grazing on food

An Ancient Irrigation System May Help Farmers Face Climate Change

By Samuel Gilbert

April 22, 2025

A green grassy field with a waterway like a ditch in an idyllic setting

How One Milwaukee Food Bank Is Handling the Drop in USDA Funding

By Brian Calvert

April 21, 2025

A member of the Hunger Task Force team loading a senior Stockbox into the vehicle of a recipient at a distribution in Milwaukee County.

USDA’s Regional Food Business Centers Caught in Federal Funding Freeze

April 16, 2025

A Native American man stands in a field with a herd of bison, with the light shining behind him and blue skies above