FARMING

Automated Harvest Is Coming. What Will it Mean for Farmworkers and Rural Communities?

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09.29.20

Elizabeth DeRuff of Honoré Farm and Mill holds a bundle of freshly harvested local wheat for processing.

Civil Eats TV: Cultivating Sacred Grains for the Bread of Life

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09.28.20

A hand holding healthy soil from a regenerative agriculture operation. Gonna trade those carbon credits on the carbon market...

Are Carbon Markets for Farmers Worth the Hype?

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09.24.20

A flock of free range regenerative livestock graze in a field in the Bay Area

Ranchers Form Co-Op to Address Meat Processing Bottleneck

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09.23.20

A farmer walks among trees on the healthy soil at his farm. Photo courtesy of Kiss the Ground.

New Soil Documentary Promises a Powerful Solution to the Growing Effects of Climate Change

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09.22.20

joe biden speaking about climate change and agriculture. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

In a Year of Climate Reckoning, Where Does Joe Biden Stand on Climate and Agriculture?

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09.21.20

Victor Anagli and Deepa Iyer at Ayeko Farm. (Photo courtesy of Deepa Iyer)

Deepa Iyer Is Farming for Social Justice

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09.18.20

Rollen Chalmers prepping the Wormsloe site. (Photo credit: Sarah Ross)

How a South Carolina Farmer Is Adapting an Heirloom Rice to Withstand Climate Change

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09.16.20

Organic Seed Alliance's field crew cleans organic spinach seed at the organization's research farm in Chimcum, Washington. Photo credit: Shawn Linehan.

Op-ed: How Patents Threaten Small Seed Companies

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09.11.20

A woman tending her small agroecology plot of land. Photo courtesy of WhyHunger

The People’s Agroecology Process Brings a Global Lens to U.S. Food Justice Work

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09.10.20

Grain bins damaged by the derecho storm in are shown at the Heartland Co-Op grain elevator on August 11, 2020 in Luther, Iowa.

Iowa Farmers Face Climate-Fueled Destruction, While the Industry Says it’s ‘Just Weather’

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09.09.20

Teacher Pearlya is leading an online food education class.

Edible Education Goes Online in the COVID Era

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09.09.20

Tika Bhandari of Bhutan works in her farm. Photo credit: Bob Blanchard

New Support for Refugee Farmers Hard Hit by the Pandemic

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09.04.20

h-2a guest farmworkers get temperature checks before starting their shifts.

A Battle over Mandatory Farmworker Testing Reveals a Broken System

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09.03.20

Over the course of four hours, the team of 14 vineyard workers harvested ten tons of grapes (20,000 pounds).

Photoessay: On the Front Lines of Fire with Wine Country Farmworkers

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09.02.20

Miyoko Schinner of Miyoko's Creamery poses with her "powerfully vegan" tattoo on her farm where she works to end animal cruelty

Civil Eats TV: Meet the Queen of Vegan Cheese

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09.01.20

food workers at a poultry processing plant watch chickens go by as line speeds accelerate

USDA Seeks to Permanently Speed up Poultry Plant Line Speeds

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08.31.20

loaves of whole grain bread and freshly milled whole grain wheat

Op-ed: Will the Real ‘Whole Grain’ Please Stand Up?

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08.28.20