The food system, like every other aspect of life in America, has been shaped by structural racism and racial injustice.…
“I have a bunch of fantasies,” Celeste Nolan said over the phone from southeastern Ohio, about improvements that would make…
“Like most Black people my age, I’ve always been in the midst of gardens,” says 72-year-old Ayanna Jones, between running…
Civil Eats partnered with America’s Test Kitchen to develop this story, which today airs an audio version as part of their…
It’s a tough time for farmers across the nation. Many have lost crops or delayed planting due to extreme weather…
It’s the start of December, and the days are getting shorter and colder—perfect weather for settling in with a book.…
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Robert Chang’s fellow small-scale farmers turn to each other when they need low-cost tech to stay organized as they plant…
It’s been 15 years since Starbucks started carrying soy milk in its stores in 2004. Since then, we’ve had two…
This article was originally published by FoodPrint, and is reprinted with permission. One morning in mid-September, Jed Colquhoun, an expert…
“Imagine your neighbor stole your cow. A few weeks later the neighbor comes over, laden with remorse, to offer a…
This week marks Peak Turkey for most Americans—roughly 46 million turkeys are eaten for Thanksgiving dinners alone—and those turkeys all…
The guests of honor messily and quite literally gobbled down pumpkin pies topped with cranberries at a recent “Thanksliving party.”…
Over the last 15 years, San Francisco-based World Centric has been a leader in the $16 billion environmentally friendly compostable…
On a hot summer weekend in Brooklyn, the Weeksville Heritage Center bustled with people from every walk of life dancing,…
The United States Library of Congress has selected Civil Eats for inclusion in the Library's historic collection of Internet materials…
The Trump administration plans to weaken environmental safeguards for atrazine, the second most widely used herbicide in the U.S., even…
For Rosalie Talahongva, a former business analyst and a member of the Hopi tribe, weekends on the reservation are sometimes…