Local Food

Xavier “X” Colon, a young person with long braided black hair, a baseball cap, and a bright orange hi-visibility shirt, stands in the fields at South Chicago Farm. (Photo by Paul Gordon)

These Chicago Urban Farmers Are Growing Local Food in the Wake of Steel Industry Pollution

January 26, 2023

Surrounded by the pollution resulting from decades of steel production, a community garden is providing relief to Chicagoland communities.

As Grocery Stores Get Bigger, Small Farms Get Squeezed Out

January 17, 2023

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - OCTOBER 13: Produce is offered for sale at a grocery store on October 13, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. According to government data released today, the food at home index, a measure of grocery store prices, increased 0.7% in September from the month prior and saw a 13% increase over the last year. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Farmers Embrace the Growing Domestic Spice Trade

By Bridget Shirvell

January 9, 2023

Krissy Scommegna moves pepper starts in the greenhouse. (Photo courtesy of Boonville Barn Collective)

Urban Farms Are Stepping Up Their Roles in Communities Nationwide

By Rachel Surls

November 10, 2022

At far right, urban farmers Richard Garcia and Erika Cuellar, the founders of Alma Backyard farms, with some of their crew. (Photo credit: Rachel Surls)

Year-Round Farming in Massachusetts? How the State Is Investing in Solutions.

October 31, 2022

Eastie Farm's geothermal greenhouse, built with funds from a food security infrastructure grant from the state. (Photo credit: Meg Wilcox)

Will a Buffett-Funded Co-op in the Hudson Valley Boost Food Access or Lead to Gentrification?

By Will Solomon

October 20, 2022

How Fermented Foods Shaped the World

By Twilight Greenaway

October 4, 2022

julia skinner and the cover of our fermented lives

Co-Op Grocery Stores Expand Their Mission to Equity and Food Justice

By Christina Cooke

September 19, 2022

Detroit People’s Food Co-op Board Member Malik Yakini at the Detroit Food Commons construction site.

Native Tribes Are Bringing Prairie Land Back to the Pacific Northwest

By Claire Elise Thompson, Grist

September 16, 2022

A group sows camas seeds on the Jamestown Tribe’s 1.5-acre prairie site. (Photo credit: Miranda Wilson)

Top Chef’s Gregory Gourdet on Sourcing, Sobriety, and Equity

By Hannah Wallace

September 15, 2022

Gregory Gourdet in the dining room of his new Haitan restaurant Kann, which opened in August. (Photo credit: Zack Lewis)

Can an Urban Farm Run by Police Create Jobs, Feed People, and Build Trust?

By Annie Sciacca

September 14, 2022

A tractor and a podium at the unveiling of the Alameda County Sheriff's Office unveiling of the Dig Deep acquisition of Ardenwood Farm. (Photo credit: Joy C. Liu, Alameda County Sheriff's Office)

How One Rust Belt College Is Transforming Its Local Food System

By Douglas Haynes

September 12, 2022

Kalamazoo Valley Community College

The Field Report: The USDA Steps Up Its Investments in Regional Food Systems

September 7, 2022

Fred Lee and his Sang Lee Farms team participate in the Farmer’s Market in Northport, New York. (USDA photo by Preston Keres)

How to Garden Through Climate Change

By Naomi Starkman

September 1, 2022

Sally Morgan with her book, "The Healthy Vegetable Garden."

Only Two States Have Passed ‘Right to Garden’ Laws. Will Others Follow?

By Katherine Kornei

August 20, 2022

A home garden in Maine. (Photo CC-licensed by the National Garden Clubs)

Farm to School Efforts Just Got a Big Influx of Cash. Will It Help More Schools Get On Board?

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

August 15, 2022

Some of the lunch offerings through Winters' farm to school cafeterial program.

Inside the Brooklyn Packers’ Vision for a Community-Based Micro Food Hub

By Rae Gomes and Grey Moran

July 11, 2022

Brooklyn Packers working to fill food delivery bags to co-op members. Photo credit: Mark Davis

How Foreign Private Equity Hooked New England’s Fishing Industry

By Will Sennott, New Bedford Light

July 8, 2022

A fisherman emptying a net after a haul of seafood in Massachusetts.

How the Cooperative Food Movement Is Evolving

By Twilight Greenaway

July 7, 2022

The COFED 2019 Summer Co-op Academy cohort. (Photo courtesy of COFED)

This Pilot Program Is Supporting Tribal Food Sovereignty with Federal Dollars

By Kalen Goodluck

July 5, 2022

‘Buy Nothing’ as a Food Distribution Network

By Tilde Herrera

June 28, 2022

Cilla Lee and some of the food donations to the Outer Richmond Buy Nothing Group. (Photo by Naomi Fiss)

Can Produce Prescription Programs Turn the Tide on Diet-Related Disease?

April 11, 2022

Can produce prescription programs turn tide on diet-related disease?

Surviving Small Restaurants Push Forward as Pandemic Ebbs

By Aallyah Wright, Stateline

April 8, 2022

Leland, Miss., natives Lisa and Cedric Bush smile this month inside their newly opened restaurant, Bush’s Kountry Cafe, formerly the Leland Café. Over the past two years, restaurants have struggled to stay afloat, but some states have passed measures to help them survive. (Photo credit: Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts)

Photo Essay: How Nourish New York Is Still Feeding NYC

March 29, 2022

Sustainable caught fish from Long Island’s Haskell's Seafood, a family run fishery, being delivered to the kosher Masbia pantry in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn.

The Fight for L.A.’s Street Food Vendors

By Zoie Matthew

March 28, 2022

A girl walks with street food vendors calling for legalization of their trade during a march on May Day, on May 1, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. David McNew/Getty Images)