From Oklahoma to D.C., a food activist works to ensure that communities can protect their food systems and their future.
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July 30, 2025
From Oklahoma to D.C., a food activist works to ensure that communities can protect their food systems and their future.
January 20, 2025
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July 23, 2025
As the August 1 deadline set by President Trump approaches, some agricultural products will face new taxes. Others will be spared by new trade deals.
At Black Butterfly Teaching Farm, locals learn to build a climate-resilient food system with economic potential in the midst of an industrial city. Funding cuts now jeopardize that mission.
In Maine, Maryland, and beyond, the industry is using a well-worn playbook to slow legislators’ attempts to get forever chemicals out of food and water.
October 30, 2024
A New York City nonprofit provides weekly groceries and hot meals to Asian elders, building its own supply chains and invigorating Asian-owned restaurants, grocery stores, and farms.
April 7, 2025
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March 20, 2025
Most avocados sold in the U.S. come from Mexico, where farming methods have serious environmental and human-rights impacts. Yet importers continue to market the fruit as sustainably grown.
Plenty of restaurants want to share the message about their genuinely climate-conscious practices, but diners often don’t want to hear it.
September 30, 2024
A wash of Walton family funding to news media is creating echo chambers in environmental journalism, and beyond. Are editorial firewalls up to the task?
December 13, 2023
November 21, 2023
The critically important legislation got another last-minute extension in December, but farmers, advocates, and eaters alike all want to know what the new year will bring for ag policy.
With soil knives, scorecards, and endless enthusiasm, college students from across the country compete for the Stanley Cup of soils—and learn how to protect an increasingly threatened resource.
A 2022 Civil Eats investigation found that a budget rider that prohibits OSHA from spending money to regulate small farms leaves most animal-ag operations without oversight. Lawmakers appear poised to renew the rider once again.
November 18, 2022
November 17, 2022
November 16, 2022
The second MAHA report is due next month. Here’s how the Trump administration’s actions have directly contradicted MAHA’s goals so far.
These prized wild leeks, native to the Northeast, have long faced pressure from high demand. Researchers are investigating how harvesting practices can boost their sustainability.
October 3, 2022
Of the three female craft sake brewers in the U.S., two make up the mother-daughter team at Sequoia Sake in San Francisco. Working with California rice farmers, they’re bringing the nearly 2,000-year-old national drink of Japan to more Americans.
