Local Food

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

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

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11.19.20

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

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

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11.06.20

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)

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

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11.05.20

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

Black Farmers Breathe New Life into Agriculture in the South

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10.30.20

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.

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

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10.29.20

Shopping for groceries during the pandemic. (Photo CC-licensed by the City of St. Petersburg)

The Pandemic Has Given Organics a Big Boost—but Most Profits Aren’t Flowing to Small Producers

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10.23.20

Nicole Virgil in her backyard garden.

Without a ‘Right to Garden’ Law, It May Be Illegal to Grow Your Own Food

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10.16.20

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 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

Some of the lingcod delivered through a hunger relief event in Columbia Gorge. (Photo courtesy of The Wave)

Connecting Fishermen with Hungry Communities Can also Benefit Local Food Systems

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09.15.20

farmers working together cooperatively to harvest and tend to produce as part of their co-op

For Small Farms Surviving the Pandemic, Co-ops Are a Lifeline

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09.14.20

Lilian Ryland of Naija Buka, showing off her sauces. (Photo courtesy of Naija Buka)

Immigrant-Led Food Startups Face an Uphill Battle in the Pandemic

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09.08.20

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

A view of the Stock Cropper system. (Photo courtesy of Zach Smith)

Op-ed: A New Row-Cropping System in Iowa Offers Some Reasons for Optimism

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08.21.20

On his route in Sunset Park in Brooklyn, Smith has a recipient on almost every block.

And Now for Some Good News: 20 Inspiring Food and Agriculture Stories

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08.03.20

bu nygrens and nicole mason of veritable vegetable

The Nation’s Oldest Organic Produce Distributor Is Weathering the Pandemic

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07.30.20

a person foraging ramps in wild woods near home

Interest in Foraging Is Booming. Here’s How to Do it Right

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07.09.20

Freshly caught fish for sale at the Dockside Harbor market. (Photo by Mark Armao)

A San Diego Pier-to-Plate Seafood Market Is a Lifeline for Fishermen

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07.02.20