HEALTH

At the Flying Deer Nature Center, the local forest is the playground for students. (Photo credit: Flying Deer Nature Center)

Foraging at Forest Schools, Where Nature is the Classroom

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03.18.19
Chapel’s Country Creamery farm owner Holly Foster in Easton, MD pours milk curd of fresh raw milk. (USDA photo by Bob Nichols)

Could the Raw Milk Boom Be a Lifeline for Struggling Farmers?

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03.12.19
woman cooking in the kitchen

More Time in the Kitchen May Not Be the Answer to Feeding Kids Well

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03.01.19
Volunteers plant a small ornamental garden at the corner of a newly cleaned vacant lot in Philadelphia.

How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security

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02.14.19
man spraying pesticides in a farm field

Can Eating Organic Lower Your Exposure to Pesticides?

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02.11.19
a person eating a large hamburger

Investors Join Calls for a Food Revolution to Fight Climate Change

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02.01.19
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
Jehmel Alexander working in the Foodlink kitchen.

One of the Nation’s Oldest Food Banks Adds Culinary Education to its Offerings

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01.24.19
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
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
eric holt-gimenez and the cover of his new book, can we feed the world without destroying it

Feeding the World Without Destroying It

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01.10.19
Milking cows in Mongolia. (Photo courtesy of the Khovsgol Dairy Project)

Mongolia, Cheese, and the Future of Dairy in the Era of Climate Change

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01.03.19
Harvesting in pairs at Intervale Community Farm. (Photo credit: Brian Shevrin)

Our Best Solutions-Focused Stories of 2018

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12.26.18
Outside a Dollar General in Fort Hancock, Texas. (Photo credit: Thomas Hawk)

Dollar Stores Are Taking Over the Grocery Business, and It’s Bad News for Public Health and Local Economies

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12.17.18
students receiving school lunch in a cafeteria

Making Healthy School Lunches Free for All Should Be a National Priority

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12.14.18
a rainbow over a farm and barn

Despite Small Wins, the New Farm Bill is a Failure of Imagination

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12.13.18
Pei-Ru Ko presents at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum. (Photo courtesy of RFRS)

The Personal Storytelling That is Putting a Human Face on the Food Movement

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12.06.18