ENVIRONMENT

Bagging lettuce from local small farms at the Vermont Food Bank

The Farm to Food Bank Movement Aims to Rescue Small-Scale Farming and Feed the Hungry

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05.14.20

giving newsday header for civil eats

This #GivingNewsDay, Support Nonprofit Journalism

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05.05.20

Vietnamese immigrant urban farmer Tham Nguyen tends vegetables at VEGGI co-op farm. Photo by Sarah Sax.

A Vietnamese Farmers’ Cooperative in New Orleans Offers a Lesson in Resilience

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05.01.20

a woman buying food in a plastic bag from a farmers' market

How the Pandemic is Creating a Plastic Boom

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04.28.20

The Riverview Dairy Digester in Pixley, California. It receives manure from roughly 3,000 milk cows, plus replacement stock. (Photo courtesy of Maas Energy Works)

Are Dairy Digesters the Renewable Energy Answer or a ‘False Solution’ to Climate Change?

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04.24.20

rice paddy flooded. Photo CC-licensed by Phil Hendley.

Could Changing the Way We Farm Rice Be a Climate Solution?

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04.23.20

Coalition of Immokalee Worker carrying produce. Photo from iStockphoto.com.

Change to Federal Rule Could Expose More Farmworkers to Pesticides

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04.22.20

kristyn leach explaining seed saving with her mustard plants.

Gardening is Important, But Seed Saving is Crucial

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04.21.20

Food safety inspection at a meat processing facility.

Critical Food and Farm Rules Have Been Rolled Back Amid Pandemic

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04.14.20

Scott MacAlister (photo courtesy of courtesy of the Cape Cod Commercial Fisherman's Alliance)

As Coronavirus Disrupts Seafood Supply Chains, Struggling Fishermen Seek Other Markets

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04.14.20

Farmers in Puerto Rico are Growing a Culture of Social Justice and Climate Resilience

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03.11.20

book cover of mark kurlansky's salmon, plus author photo by Sylvia Plachy

What the History of Salmon Can Tell Us About the Future of the Planet

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03.05.20

Chellie Pingree visiting a farm during a Women in Agriculture event

A Comprehensive New Federal Roadmap for Climate Action on Farms

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02.26.20

hands scooping piles of lentils and other pulse crops

Plant-Based Diets and Regenerative Ag Have Sparked a Pea and Lentil Renaissance

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02.18.20

spraying an orchard farm with a tractor

Jury Awards $265M in Damages in Dicamba Trial Against Monsanto, BASF

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02.17.20

Cattle in an Oklahoma feedlot. (USDA photo by Alice Welch)

Is Trump’s USDA Ready to Address Climate Change?

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02.14.20

Climate Change Will Expand Agriculture’s Reach, Solving Some Problems and Creating New Ones

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02.12.20

cover crop rye grass

Two States are Leading a Cover Crop Revival

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02.11.20