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Associate Editor Christina Cooke, former Staff Reporter Grey Moran, and Editorial Director Margo True pictured at the James Beard Foundation Media Awards.

Civil Eats Wins a James Beard Award for Coverage of Farmworker Heat Protections

By The Civil Eats Editors

June 16, 2025

Our reporting on the Fair Food Program, which offers protections to Florida workers and immigrants while the state bans them, came in first in the Health and Wellness category.

Op-ed: Save California’s Crab Culture From Drowning in Regulations

By Samantha Ross

June 4, 2025

Stanley Ross (at left, coiling rope) and friends pull up crab traps just beyond the Golden Gate Bridge on an early November morning in 2018. (Photo credit: Samantha Ross)

Farmworker Youth Take to the Streets as Deportations and Displacement Threaten Their Parents

June 3, 2025

At a protest against immigration detentions in Santa Maria, CA, a young woman holds a sign honoring the work of her farmworker parents. (Photo credit: David Bacom)

Helping Ramps Flourish Through Forest Farming

May 28, 2025

Close up of a man's hands holding his freshly foraged wild ramps

Warming Waters Cause Invasion of Sea Squirts at Maine Fisheries

By Kirsten Lie-Nielsen

May 27, 2025

A fisherman pulls up a big fishing cage off of a boat. He is wearing yellow waders and a beanie

Sean Sherman Expands His Vision for Decolonizing the US Food System

May 20, 2025

A Native American chef with a long braid leans over a counter with a dish in front of him. He is wearing a t-shirt with the words

What Deep Cuts to NOAA Mean for U.S. Fisheries

May 15, 2025

multiple colorful small boats line a small harbor in Rhode Island on a sunny day with blue skies

Protests Mount Against ICE Detentions of Immigrant Farmworkers

By Brian Calvert

May 9, 2025

A farmworker protest to free union organizers from ICE detention. (Photo courtesy of Migrant Justice)

The Pork Industry Asks Congress to Overturn Prop. 12, a Divisive Animal Welfare Law, Yet Again

May 6, 2025

Customer selecting packaged meat slices at a supermarket counter. Dressed casually in jeans, she carries a shoulder bag while browsing the meat section. Real-life shopping moment. More than a year after the animal welfare law went into effect, evidence of the pork industry’s ‘crisis’ is hard to find. But another push to overturn the law is in the works.

USDA’s Regional Food Business Centers Caught in Federal Funding Freeze

April 16, 2025

A Native American man stands in a field with a herd of bison, with the light shining behind him and blue skies above

Op-ed: How Trump’s Tariffs Could Impact Your Local Restaurant

By Clare Reichenbach

April 2, 2025

New York City, USA. People dining at a Mexican restaurant in the West Village. (Photo credit: zxvisual/Getty Images)

Farmworker Unions on the Rise in New York, Joined by the United Farm Workers

March 31, 2025

Workers at an apple farm in New York celebrate after signing the first farm worker union contract. (Photo credit: United Farm Workers)

Will Local Food Survive Trump’s USDA?

March 19, 2025

A woman with blonde hair sits on a bright red tractor in a field

A New Path for Small Farmers in the Southeast?

By Iris Crawford

March 14, 2025

An African American farmer wearing a cowboy hat stands in a farm field

As Tariffs Slam Maple Syrup, Sugarmakers Branch Out

By Callie Radke Stevens

March 5, 2025

A farmer and scientist looks at a thin blue tube that is attached to a maple tree trunk inside a forest with some snow on the ground

Alien Land Laws, Created to Protect US Farmland, May Be Harming Asian Americans

February 25, 2025

A black and white photo of Japanese American farm workers in California circa 1937. They are donning big hats and resting.

Our Best Climate Reporting of 2024

By The Civil Eats Editors

December 23, 2024

A farmer harvests coffee beans in a plantation along the Mekong River in Thailand. (Photo credit: Sutiporn Somnam, Getty Images)

Fighting the Corporate CAFO ‘Takeover’ of Rural America

By Tilde Herrera

November 18, 2024

A woman wearing a blue shirt sits for a portrait and the image next to her is a book cover with a cow that says

After Hurricane Helene, Local Farmers and Chefs Pivot to Disaster Relief

By Daniel Walton

October 29, 2024

Preston Green stands among Big Bottom Milk Company’s herd of curious Jersey cows on the farm outside of Forest City, North Carolina. Less than three weeks before, the pasture had been swamped by Tropical Storm Helene. (Photo credit: Daniel Walton)

If Restaurants Serve Up Climate Education, Will Diners Pay Attention?

October 21, 2024

a photo collage of hands cutting vegetables and people sitting around a big table eating

‘Invisible’ Waste: For Restaurants, Composting Food Scraps Is Just the Beginning

October 15, 2024

Battling Meltdown: If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Work for Change in the Kitchen

By Amy McCarthy

October 7, 2024

a collage of a woman cooking over a hot stove in a restaurant

Weathering Climate Shocks: How Restaurants Survive Supply Disruptions

By Hannah Wallace

September 30, 2024

a photo collage of a commercial crabber wearing an orange jacket, a white truck on a farm, and white chickens in the foreground

The High Cost of Groceries: Experts Weigh In

September 25, 2024

From left to right: Lisa Held, David Ortega, and Lindsay Owens.

Beyond Farm to Table: How Chefs Can Support Climate-Friendly Food Systems

September 23, 2024

Illustration by Ellie Krupnik

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