Local Food

Eva Dawn Burk stands on the bank of the Tanana River in late April in her home village of Nenana, Alaska. Burk is a graduate student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, who is developing biomass-heated greenhouses for rural Native communities. (Photo credit: Brian Adams, High Country News)

A Native-led Initiative Seeks to Spur an Agricultural Revolution in Rural Alaska

July 29, 2021

A grassroots project to build biomass-heated greenhouses aims to alleviate food insecurity in the communities most affected by it.

James Rebanks: There Are No Winners in American Farming

By James Rebanks

July 26, 2021

James Rebanks stands amongs his sheep on his farm. (Photo credit: Stuart Simpson, Penguin Books)

A Farmer-Owned Local Food App Stands Out from the Venture Capital-Backed Crowd

By Lela Nargi

July 12, 2021

a farmer sells local food direct to consumers after making the sale through a smartphone app

How Gleaning Could Reshape the Farm Economy

By Natalie Peart, YES! Magazine

July 9, 2021

Gleaners at Salvation Farms in Morristown, Vermont. (Photo from Salvation Farms)

The Museum Building an Incubator for Native Food Businesses

By Mark Armao

June 21, 2021

Grown by farmers with The Cultural Conservancy, Seneca Onëo white corn is braided for drying prior to shelling for seed and grinding for flour. Photo by Mateo Hinojosa, TCC

The Race to Transform a Wisconsin Farm into a Justice-Focused Agrihood

By Susan Shain

May 12, 2021

Why Ken Meter Is on a Mission to Build Community Food Webs

By Nancy Matsumoto

May 7, 2021

A farmstand selling community-grown food. (Photo CC-licensed by Suzie's Farm)

Taking Ancient, Wild Crops from Field to Table

By Lindsay Campbell

May 6, 2021

Rob Connoley in the Bulrush kitchen in 2019. (Photo CC-licensed by Edsel Little)

Roxana Jullapat on the Transformative Power of Baking with Whole Grains

By Hilary Macht

April 30, 2021

Reviving Breadfruit, the Polynesian Staple, Could Nourish People and Fight Climate Change

By David Neimanis

April 28, 2021

Harvesting 'ulu (Photo credit: Hawai'i 'Ulu Cooperative)

Civil Eats TV: Planting with Purpose at Urban Tilth

By The Civil Eats Editors

April 6, 2021

Doria Robinson in the fields at Urban Tilth's North Richmond Farm

Op-ed: After the Pandemic Flour Craze, Micro-Millers Take Stock

By Amy Halloran

March 19, 2021

home baker kneading dough and shaping loaves of bread

As Mushrooms Grow in Popularity, a Radical Mycology Movement is Emerging

By Gosia Wozniacka

March 11, 2021

King Bolete (Boletus edulis). (Photo CC-licensed by Bernard Spragg)

Will the CSA Boom Survive Beyond the Pandemic?

By Bridget Shirvell

March 10, 2021

farmer loading csa boxes into his truck to deliver to community supported agriculture customers

TikTok Sensation Alexis Nikole Nelson Wants You to Love Foraging as Much as She Does

By Bridget Shirvell

March 4, 2021

How a Food Business Incubator Is Building Black Economic Strength in Minnesota

By Cinnamon Janzer

February 24, 2021

the little africa market parade put on by the aeds

Our Future Food Supply Depends on Endangered Wild Crops

By Gosia Wozniacka

January 25, 2021

A wild crop relative sunflower grows on the side of the highway.

The Seneca Nation Is Building Food Sovereignty, One Bison at a Time

By Gabriel Pietrorazio

January 14, 2021

On November 8, 2020, Gakwi:yo:h Farms relocated their wild bison herd to Ohi:yo' at the Sunfish flats in Allegany, a sprawling 300-acre plot of land where the bison may roam freely. (Photo courtesy of Seneca Media & Communications Center)

The Quapaw Nation’s Casino Farms Its Own Food

By Hannah Wallace

December 10, 2020

The greenhouses at Downstream Casino Resort. (Photo credit: Quapaw Nation)

Can Local Food Feed Big Cities? Yes, if We Cut Down on Meat

By Lisa Held

December 2, 2020

A farmer sells his fresh produce at a farmers' market.

The Collective Farm Helping Oregon’s Latinx Farmworkers Weather the Pandemic

By Judy Bankman

November 19, 2020

Joel Pelayo sells chiles at the Mercado del Valley. (Photo credit: Gorge Grown)

It Took a Group of Black Farmers to Start Fixing Land Ownership Problems in Detroit

By Rhonda J. Smith, Planet Detroit

November 6, 2020

The Oakland Avenue Urban Farm. (Photo courtesy of Planet Detroit)

How a Northwest Co-Op Is Building a Local Food Future Beyond Big Ag

By Carl Segerstrom, High Country News

November 5, 2020

Beth Robinette holds a bunch of beets from Urban Eden Farms, one of the independent producers for Spokane's LINC Foods cooperative. (Photo credit: Rajah Bose, High Country News)

Black Farmers Breathe New Life into Agriculture in the South

By Drew Wayland, UNC Media Hub

October 30, 2020

Dallas Robinson at the Harriet Tubman Freedom Farm in Nash County, N.C. (Photo © Hanna Wondmagegn)

Saving Caribou and Preserving Food Traditions Among Canada’s First Nations

By David Moskowitz

October 29, 2020

Caribou cow in the Klinse-za Maternity Pen. Project members collect a portion of the herd’s pregnant cows in March (13 cows in 2020) and hold them in the pen, where they can care for and protect them until late July when the calves are about two months old and able to fend for themselves in the wild.