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Farmer Doug Crabtree walks in his sunflower field (Photo by Jennifer Hopwood, Xerces Society)

22 Reasons to Support Civil Eats on #GivingTuesday 2022

By The Civil Eats Editors

November 29, 2022

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This Mother-Daughter Team Is Sharing Food Traditions from the Ho-Chunk Nation

By Gabriel Pietrorazio

November 22, 2022

Elena Terry, (left) and Zoe Fess smile after showcasing Seedy SassSquash, a signature family dish, during the Smithsonian’s

Tyson Says Its Nurses Help Workers. Critics Charge They Stymie OSHA.

By Alice Driver

November 17, 2022

An anonymous worker, 48, from Guatemala, has worked at the Tyson in Green Forest, Arkansas, for 20 years. She needs carpal tunnel surgery in both arms, and Tyson doctors have confirmed that she needs it. However, Tyson has told her the company will not cover the cost of the surgery. Her husband, also a Tyson worker, died of COVID in 2020. (Photo by Jacky Muniello for Civil Eats)

‘I Was Coughing So Hard I Would Throw Up’

By Gosia Wozniacka

November 15, 2022

An animal-ag worker carries two piglets in a CAFO.

How a St. Louis Spice Drive Offers Refugees a Taste of Home

By Kristi Eaton

November 11, 2022

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)

Disabled Activists Are Building a More Inclusive Food Justice Future

By Dana Ferrante

November 9, 2022

Gerldine Wilson, an older Black woman who is legally blind, wears a pair of black sunglasses, and holds a white cane in her right hand, as she stands between her community garden’s raised beds. The plants are in full-bloom, and contain peppers, squash, pink flowers, tomatoes, and more. (Photo credit: Grassroots Gardens WNY)

New Evidence Shows Pesticides Contain PFAS, and the Scale of Contamination Is Unknown

November 7, 2022

Green plastic drums with chemicals set in the square

Leaving Some Farmland Fallow Benefits the Air We Breathe

By Virginia Gewin

November 2, 2022

Iowa prairie landscape

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)

As the Pacific Lamprey Declines, Native Tribes Work to Protect Sacred Eel-Like Fish

By B. Toastie, High Country News

October 21, 2022

A member of the Yakama Nation plucks a Pacific lamprey off the rocks at Willamette Falls, Oregon. (Photo credit: Mason Trinca/High Country News)

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

By Will Solomon

October 20, 2022

After 60 Years, ‘Silent Spring’ Is Still Changing the World

October 19, 2022

Rachel Carson and the original cover of Silent Spring

In South Los Angeles, a Church Community Takes Food Sovereignty Into Its Own Hands

By Alice Gelber

October 18, 2022

Parker and Williams are excited by the potential the new lot has and all the people they can feed with what they grow in it.

Ex-USDA Official Defends Pandemic Efforts to Keep Meatpacking Plants Running

By Mary Norkol, Investigate Midwest

October 13, 2022

Are People Who Need Feeding Tubes Left on Their Own When Disaster Strikes?

October 11, 2022

After Hurricane María struck Puerto Rico in 2017, a woman cares for her 97-year-old mother, who uses a feeding tube to eat and sleeps in a room with no air conditioner. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

How Fermented Foods Shaped the World

By Twilight Greenaway

October 4, 2022

julia skinner and the cover of our fermented lives

Voices from the White House Conference on Hunger and Nutrition

September 29, 2022

On stage at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, from left: Senator Cory Booker, Senator Mike Braun, White House Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice, and Representative Jim McGovern. (Photo credit: Lisa Held)

For Healthier School Meals, California Bets On More Cooks in the Kitchen

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

September 28, 2022

School meal Chef trainees take part in the Healthy School Food Pathway program. (Photo credit: Santa Clara Unified School District)

Will New Standards for Salmonella in Chicken Cut Down on Food Poisoning?

September 27, 2022

A raw whole chicken on a tray to illustrate the risks of salmonella in chicken

How the Politics of School Food Shape What Kids Eat

By Matthew Wheeland

September 26, 2022

Marcus Weaver-Hightower and the cover of his new book, Unpacking School Lunch

Op-ed: Is There Plastic in Your Soda? Beverage Companies Must Go Beyond Recycling

By Roopa Krithivasan

September 22, 2022

a worker stands in front of a massive pile of plastic bottles destined to be recycled

‘Slow Cooked’: How Food Policy Expert Marion Nestle Persisted

By Naomi Starkman

September 21, 2022

A collage of Marion Nestle present-day and the cover of her new memoir, slow cooked

The Field Report: Big Questions Linger About The White House Conference on Hunger

September 20, 2022

Volunteers load groceries into cars during an Alameda County Community Food Bank food giveaway on July 15, 2022 in Oakland, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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.