Before You Try to Decolonize Your Diet, Read This
A new book digs into the paradoxes of American Indian diets most people don’t know.
Sustainable food and farming
Tomato Canning as Protest: How a Community Resisted Corporate Farming
A Missouri town’s summer ritual brings much-needed support to small family operations.
A Community of Slave Descendants Is Protecting Unique Food Traditions from Rising Seas
One chef is raising the profile of Gullah/Geechee cuisine to help maintain the Nation’s cultural identity.
A Brief History of the Feral Blackberry
The Himalayan blackberry was introduced to North America as a food crop. Like a Gremlin doused with water, it escaped its confinement and became almost impossible to eradicate.
5 Reasons Salmon Are an Environmental Justice Solution
We need wild salmon—and not just because they’re tasty. They are an indicator of ecosystem health.
The Push to Turn Church Land Into Farmland
Faith leaders, conservation experts, and food advocates are joining forces to connect young farmers to the vast quantity of land owned by churches.
Immigrant Farmers Revive Dormant Greenhouse to Grow Food From Home
At a small farmers market south of Seattle, you’ll find varieties of ethnic vegetables unlikely sold in your typical supermarket.
Cooking Stirs the Pot for Social Change
Preparing food—and letting others in our communities cook for us—is how we become good citizens who engage with the communities around us.
Farming as Resistance
Threatened by a mining company, indigenous women in the remote highlands of Guatemala are marching, increasing productivity, and planting trees.
Senate’s Farm Bill Moves Forward—But What Is It, Anyway?
From food assistance for the poor to subsidies for a corporate food system, the nation’s next farm bill is taking shape.
How to Save Heirloom Tomato Seeds
Heirlooms are irresistible, not just because they’re delicious, but because growing them defies capitalism.
Ever Wonder How Rainfall Affects Your Peanut Butter Sandwich Habit?
Climate change will impact agriculture and food supplies. That’s why this digital classroom is teaching food literacy.
Why Fast Fashion Needs to Slow Down
The no-waste economy must be applied to fashion, just as it is in the food industry.
What Fossil Fuels and Factory Farms Have in Common
Hint: They’re both issues of environmental injustice.
How Cuba’s Women Farmers Kept Everyone Fed
“I wake up early, I spend all day on the farm, working hard, managing the workers, planting, harvesting, selling, teaching—I do all of this out of love.”
How Foodies Can Understand Capitalism and Farm-to-Table Justice
Our food system can be a place for systemic transformation through an alliance between the progressive and radical wings of the food movement.
A Bag of Cheap Groceries Is No Substitute for Political Power
We can’t ignore the economic system, policies, and incentives that encourage 40 percent of all food to go to waste.
13 Climate Justice Leaders Imagined as Comic Superheroes
“Rogue Scientists” was an inspired choice.
6 Horrifying Foods You’ve Probably Eaten
Are you going to eat that? Because the food industrial complex is the stuff of nightmares.
A Trillion-Ton Iceberg Broke Off Antarctica and All I Can Think About Is Food
Climate change is getting worse, and policymakers are ignoring one of the biggest factors.
Your Chocolate Might Have Survived This Fungus in Ecuador
Half of all cacao grown in Ecuador is ruined by a disease called frosty pod rot. But farmers, exporters, and chocolate-makers are finding sustainable ways to combat it.
Blackfeet Researcher Leads Her Tribe Back to Traditional Foods
Forced assimilation destroyed most nations’ diets, but now Native youth are learning to integrate local foods back into their daily lives.
School District Switches to Local and Organic Meals, Cuts Carbon Footprint—and Saves Money
A new report revealed surprising results when Oakland overhauled its lunch menu at 100-plus schools by serving less meat and more fruits and vegetables.
From Grocery Stores to Labor Unions, Cooperatives Were the Answer
Worker-ownership economics catch on in Ohio, Nevada, and North Carolina.
This Small Town Refused to Settle for Wal-Mart When Its Last Local Grocery Store Closed
After 10 years without an independent grocery store, the residents of Iola, Kansas, found a way to bring one back.
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