FARMING

Rev. Floyd D. Harris Jr. harvests cabbage from Freedom School Fresno’s demonstration farm. (Photo © Joan Cusick)

Fresno’s Freedom School is Changing the Narrative on Farming for Black Youth

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02.13.19
Kate Greenberg, Colorado Department of Agriculture Commissioner

Meet Kate Greenberg, Colorado’s New Commissioner of Agriculture

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02.11.19
Jeanie Alderson with her cows

Montana Ranchers are Kicking Up Dust to Bring Back Country of Origin Labels on Meat

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02.07.19
Marc Mousseau of Island Creek Plantation and his Ossabaw gilt “Keira”. (Photo © Jeannette Beranger/The Livestock Conservancy)

Can Heritage Pork Scale Up?

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02.05.19
Gorazd Trušnovec, a professional beekeeper in Ljubljana, tends to the beehives on the balcony of the offices of the prime minister of Slovenia

What the U.S. Could Learn From Slovenia About Protecting Bees

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02.04.19
Cory Carman portrait © Nolan Calisch.

How an Oregon Rancher is Building Soil Health—and a Robust Regional Food System

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01.31.19
Hundreds gather in San Francisco with the youth led Sunrise Movement to call on House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi to support the formation of a Select Committee to advance a Green New Deal to address Climate Change. (Photo CC-licensed by Peg Hunter)

A Green New Deal Must Include Food and Farming

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01.30.19
10 years of civil eats

10 Years of Civil Eats—What Has Changed in a Decade of Reporting on the Food System?

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01.29.19
Mark VanGessel holding an invasive palmer amaranth plant. (Photo CC-licensed by Delaware Agriculture)

Australia Might Have the Answer to Herbicide-Resistant ‘Superweeds’

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01.28.19
black farmer sitting on a tractor

New Research Explores the Ongoing Impact of Racism on the U.S. Farming Landscape

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01.25.19
USDA Agriculture Research Service entomologists inspect Florida orange trees for Asian citrus psyllids. (USDA photo by Stephen Ausmus.)

Florida’s Citrus Trees Face Extinction. Are Antibiotics the Only Answer?

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01.23.19
Tomatoes growing under solar panels at the University of Massachusetts.

Agrivoltaics: Solar Panels on Farms Could Be a Win-Win

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01.22.19
saafon black farmers support organization

SAAFON Works to Restore Land Justice for Black Farmers in the South

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01.21.19
Darren Chapman in the field at TigerMountain urban farm.

A Phoenix Urban Garden Provides At-Risk Individuals a Path Forward

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01.17.19
Outside the Flint Farmers' Market.

Food is Helping Flint Recover and Reimagine Itself

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01.16.19
Roy Reid (center) working with service learning students at the CSUF garden. (Photo credit: Sara Johnson)

A Farm and Restaurant Program that Helps Foster Kids Succeed

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01.15.19
people harvesting produce from an edible landscape garden

Edible Landscapes Are Un-Lawning America

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01.14.19
a chart showing the seed industry monopoly in 2018

The Sobering Details Behind the Latest Seed Monopoly Chart

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01.11.19