FARMING

A collage of a photo of the author Chase Purdy and the cover of his new book, Billion Dollar Burger

Inside the Race for Lab-Grown Meat

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07.08.20

A Somali Bantu farmer tending the field in Maine.

Could Putting Farmland in the Commons Support Land Justice and Sustainability?

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07.06.20

A Black farmer loading produce into a pickup truck

Op-ed: The Farm Bureau Says it Wants to Fight Racism. Here’s Where to Start.

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07.03.20

a farmer walks in a cornfield contemplating whether to spray glyphosate, dicamba, or one of three other herbicides in a new corn variety proposed by Bayer/Monsanto

Bayer Forges Ahead with New Crops Resistant to 5 Herbicides

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07.01.20

Jamil Burns of Raised Roots Farm in Oakland, shows off some of his produce destined for mutual aid for protesters seeking Black liberation.

Op-ed: We Can Build a Better Food System Through Mutual Aid

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06.26.20

Collage of Black leaders speaking about liberation, land justice, and food sovereignty for Black communities. Photos courtesy of A Growing Culture.

An Intergenerational Juneteenth Gathering Shows How the Black Food Sovereignty Discussion has Shifted

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06.24.20

lake erie during a toxic algal bloom as a result of agricultural runoff

The Lake Erie Bill of Rights is Dead. A Voluntary Effort Will Pay Farmers to Reduce Runoff Instead.

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06.22.20

Parchman Penal Farm. Male prisoners hoeing in a field in Mississippi. (Public domain photo by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History)

Op-ed: Overthrowing the Food System’s Plantation Paradigm

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06.19.20

Shiloh Maples in the Sacred Roots garden holding Walpole Island flint corn. Some of the seed will be saved for the seed library and some will be used in food processing workshops. (Photo courtesy of Shiloh Maples)

Rediscovering Detroit’s Roots Through Indigenous Food

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06.18.20

loren poncia stands in the doorway of his barn

Civil Eats TV: Regenerative Ranching in a Pandemic

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06.16.20

Logan Stern, Robin Patel, Terrence Smith, Michael Adyson Strickland, and Noran Sanford (left to right) stand in the pasture they've created outside the prison yard at the Scotland Correctional Center, which was decommissioned in 2001.

Youth Are Flipping an Abandoned North Carolina Prison into a Sustainable Farm

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06.15.20

Inspecting the soil health at a farm. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.

Op-ed: It’s Time to Rethink the Food System from the Ground Up

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06.12.20

Stacking pallets of USDA Farm Boxes at the Common Market warehouse in Georgia. (Photo by Emma Rolader for The Common Market)

How Food Hubs and Co-Ops Are Overcoming the USDA Farm Box Program’s Flaws

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06.11.20

A Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis. Photo CC-licensed by Andy Witchger

Reckoning with Racial Justice in Farm Country

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06.10.20

A man harvesting fresh produce in a greenhouse in Jackson, Missippi.

‘Fertile Ground’ Explores How Jackson, Mississippi, Is Charting a Better Food Future

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06.10.20

hogs in a truck being transported across country for meat processing as a result of the coronavirus pandemic

Struggling Farmers Are Selling Midwest Hogs Ad Hoc and Online

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06.08.20

A sign posted in a field of Roundup Ready, dicamba-resistant soybeans.

Federal Court Outlaws Controversial Herbicide Dicamba

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06.05.20

Marsha Habib working in a farm field

Millions of Dollars Heading to Farmers, but Small Farms Won’t See Much of it

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06.01.20