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Denzel Mitchell at Black Butterfly Teaching Farm. (Photo credit: Sam Delgado)

Can This Baltimore Academy Continue to Train Urban Farmers?

June 30, 2025

At Black Butterfly Teaching Farm, locals learn to build a climate-resilient food system with economic potential in the midst of an industrial city. Funding cuts now jeopardize that mission.

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

By The Civil Eats Editors

June 16, 2025

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

This Man Is Feeding California’s Incarcerated Firefighters

By Nadra Nittle

June 10, 2025

A line of firefighters battle a blaze. Photo courtesy of ARC.

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)

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)

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)

H-2A Guestworker Program Impacted by Stalled USDA Payments, Cuts to USAID

March 21, 2025

Farmworkers harvesting peppers in New Mexico. (Photo credit: Joseph Sorrentino, Getty Images)

How Four Years of Biden Reshaped Food and Farming

January 15, 2025

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to guests gathered at the O'Connor Grain Farm on May 11, 2022 in Kankakee, Illinois. Biden visited the farm along with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to discuss the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on food supply and prices. (Photo credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Our Best Community Food Solutions Stories of 2024

By The Civil Eats Editors

December 27, 2024

Maximina Hernández Reyes pictured at MR. Farms.

Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation

By Nicole J. Caruth, Pulizer Center Reporting Fellow

December 17, 2024

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)

How to Help Farmworkers Impacted by Hurricane Helene

By Christina Cooke

October 17, 2024

A woman stands next to a pickup truck while a young man stands on top of truck filled with canned goods, bags of food

Immigrant Workers Are the Backbone of Our Food System

By The Civil Eats Editors

October 2, 2024

a collage of diverse farmers and farm workers in the field, with signs, and smiling at the camera

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

September 23, 2024

Illustration by Ellie Krupnik

Labor Protections for Immigrant Food Workers Are at Stake in the 2024 Election

September 16, 2024

a farmworker carries a basket of grapes in a field

A New Book Dives Deep Into the Climate and Health Impacts of Gas Stoves

August 14, 2024

Rob Jackson and the cover of his book, Into the Clear Blue Sky

Farm Stops Create New Markets for Small Farms

By Paige Hodder

August 12, 2024

The Argus Farm Stop on W. Liberty Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (Photo courtesy of Argus Farm Stop)

‘Shelf Life’ Peeks Into the Nooks and Crannies of the Cheesemaker’s World

By Nicole J. Caruth, Pulizer Center Reporting Fellow

July 30, 2024

Farmworkers Push Kroger’s Shareholders for Heat and Labor Protections

July 24, 2024

Farmworkers wear protective clothing while working in a field in the morning heat on July 3, 2024 near Coachella, California. (Photo credit: Mario Tama, Getty Images)

A US Court Found Chiquita Guilty of Murder in Colombia. What Does the Ruling Mean for Other U.S. Food Corporations Abroad?

June 25, 2024

Workers unload green bananas for washing at the Santa Cruz banana plantation in Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas, Mexico. The fruit from the plantation in the Mexican state of Chiapas is harvested year round and shipped to clients in Mexico and the United States, incluiding Chiquita, the leading American banana distributor. (Photo credit: John Moore/Getty Images)

Climate Solutions for the Future of Coffee

May 21, 2024

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

Strawberry Farmworkers Fight for a Living Wage

April 24, 2024

A Mixtec immigrant from Oaxaca picks strawberries in Oxnard, Calif. She and her sister support three other family members, all of whom sleep and live in a single room in a house. (Photo © David Bacon)

The Shrimp on Your Table Has a Dark History

April 17, 2024

a worker in india holds up a pile of shrimp that needs to be peeled before being shipped to the united states

Florida Banned Farmworker Heat Protections. A Groundbreaking Partnership Offers a Solution.

March 20, 2024

Farmworkers clear out irrigation for an okra field near Coachella, California. (Photo credit: Mario Tama, Getty Images)

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