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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.

In New Orleans, ‘Solitary Gardens’ Aims to Transform Thinking About Prisons

June 18, 2025

Established last October, the final Solitary Garden is on St. Charles Avenue, a popular tourist destination in New Orleans. (Photo credit: Ben Seal)

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.

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)

Civil Eats Included in ‘The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025’

May 21, 2025

an image on the left with the

This Queer Couple Supports LGBTQ+ and BIPOC Farmers’ Mental Health

By Nicole J. Caruth, Pulizer Center Reporting Fellow

May 14, 2025

A Black woman farmer wearing an orange tank top and khaki pants walks through a field of farmland with brown cows in the background

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)

10 Ways to Get Involved With Food Mutual Aid

By Robin Greenfield

April 7, 2025

A colorfully hand drawn image of diverse people working in food mutual aid, from a bbq'er to someone holding a bowl of rice, and more

From a Farmer and His Son, a Practical and Joyful Guide to Beekeeping

By Christina Cooke

March 26, 2025

On the left side of a collage is the book cover of Akeem Keeps Bees, with an African American boy holding up a bee frame while his dad and him look at bees wearing bee suits. On the right is an image of the son and dad on the farm

‘Dignified Food’ Eases Food Insecurity in Philadelphia

March 25, 2025

rows of to-go boxes of freshly made food, with chefs and cooks in the background

This San Francisco Food Pantry Is a Labor of Love

By Tilde Herrera

March 24, 2025

A woman wearing a Giant's baseball hat and hoodie holds her white pomeranian in a bag, next to a chalkboard sign that says

Building Stronger Communities Through Food Mutual Aid

By The Civil Eats Editors

March 20, 2025

Civil Eats Editorial Director Margo True, Feed Durham founder Katina Parker, and Yasmin Ruiz, food justice co-organizer at Chicago’s Little Village Environmental Justice Organization.

In Chicago, an Environmental Organization Feeds a Community

By Angela Burke

March 12, 2025

a vibrant community garden with tall sunflowers and workers

‘If You Speak an Indigenous Language, You Are Treated as Less’: Migrant Indigenous Farmworkers Feel Deportation Threat

By Maye Primera

March 4, 2025

An Indigenous Mixtec man sits on a public green bench in a park, dressed in a white shirt with blue emboidery

Indigenous Food Reciprocity as a Model for Mutual Aid

March 3, 2025

Traditional forager Twila Cassadore of the San Carlos Apache Nation gathers wild amaranth seeds with her niece, as seen in the documentary Gather. (Photo credit: Renan Ozturk)

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.

Despite Cuts to DEI Initiatives, Food and Farm Advocates Say They Will Continue to Fight for Racial Justice

February 10, 2025

Shorlette Ammon, left, at a USDA Equity Commission's Subcommittee for Agriculture and the Rural Community Economic Development Subcommittee meeting. Photo credit: Christophe Paul/USDA.

Brea Baker on the Legacy of Stolen Farmland in America

By Iris Crawford

February 3, 2025

A collage of a book cover on the left with the title

In LA’s Altadena Neighborhood, Community Food Solutions Feed Wildfire Recovery

By Esther Tseng

January 22, 2025

Photo credit to World Central Kitchen/WCK.org.

WIC’s Recent Gains Likely to Face Challenges in Next Administration

By Laura Reiley

January 6, 2025

A woman carrying a toddler shows the toddler a broccoli inside a grocery store

Our Best Food Justice Reporting of 2024

By The Civil Eats Editors

December 26, 2024

Nick Tilsen during the Mount Rushmore Land Back Protest. (Photo credit: Willi White)

Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

By Christina Cooke

December 10, 2024

Fourth-generation farmer Patrick Brown sits on the steps of the Oakley Grove plantation, where his great-grandfather Byron was enslaved. Brown purchased the plantation in May 2021 and is in the process of renovating it. (Photo credit: Cornell Watson)

Op-ed: Food Security Is Urgently Needed in Black Rural Appalachia

November 19, 2024

Two Black women stand behind an outdoor tale with fresh sweet potatoes and fruits in baskets

The Fate of Denver’s Last Slaughterhouse Is on the Ballot

By Raksha Vasudevan

October 23, 2024

inside a slaughterhouse with hundreds of slayed lambs hanging from hooks

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

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