ENVIRONMENT

UF/IFAS specialist and citrus growers scout the grove for insects. Beneficial insects are always around with the diversity of species and flowering in the cover crops. (Photo by Juanita Popenoe)

Can Cover Crops Save Florida’s Citrus?

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01.22.20

School Food Waste photo by G Witteveen on Flickr.

A New Bill Aims to Fix Food Waste in Schools

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01.16.20

The Salmon Sisters: Emma Privat (left) and Claire Neaton.

The Salmon Sisters of Alaska are Fighting for a Healthy, Sustainable Fish Future

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01.15.20

woman holding a compostable salad food take-out container

Plastic To-Go Containers Are Bad, but Are the Alternatives Any Better?

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01.14.20

Lani Estill's sheep grazing at Bare Ranch. (Photo by Paige Green for NRCS)

In the Rush to Solve Climate Change with Lab-Based Foods, Don’t Write off Farming

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01.09.20

inspecing pawpaw fruit on the tree

Climate Change Could Make Pawpaws a Valuable Crop for Northern Farmers

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01.09.20

Kelly Placke of Star Bright Farms in Cuba City, Wisconsin.

On-Farm Solar Grows as Farmers See Economic Rewards—and Risks

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01.08.20

Candace Thompson standing in nature with edible plants

The New York Artist Reintroducing Wild, Edible Foods

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01.03.20

collage of inspiring people civil eats profiled in 2019

Our Most Inspiring Profiles of 2019

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12.27.19

farmer_carbon_farming_cory_booker

Our Best Climate Coverage of 2019

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12.24.19

looking down a road into the future

Looking Back on a Decade of Our Food Reporting

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12.23.19

spraying a dandelion weed with glyphosate

Community-Led Efforts to Ban Glyphosate in Public Spaces Pick up Speed

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12.17.19

Aerial view of deforestation to make land for farming in Brazil

Does a Loophole in Organic Standards Encourage Deforestation?

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12.16.19

Tanasia Swift (center), the Community Reefs Regional Manager at the Billion Oyster Project takes oysters from the Paerdegat Basin in Canarsie, Brooklyn to be monitored by students who were invited to learn about the waterway and the role oysters have in it.

Regenerating New York Harbor, One Billion Oysters at a Time

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12.13.19

a montage of food and farming book covers

Our 2019 Food and Farming Holiday Book Gift Guide

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12.03.19

hand holding a coin jar and a heart balloon for givingtuesday or givingnewsday

20 Reasons to Support Civil Eats on #GivingTuesday

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12.03.19

farmer harvesting cranberries

Climate Change Is Making the Future of Cranberry Growing Uncertain

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11.28.19

a row of compostable food packaging containers

The Packaging Industry Takes on PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ in our Food Supply

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11.25.19