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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.

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

Oregonians Can Now Taste Local Maple Syrup–and Learn to Make It

By Elena Valeriote

April 30, 2025

A group of people sit in a shedlike indoor/outdoor area in the woods wearing beanies and jackets listening to a woman explain how to tap bigleaf maple trees

At These Grocery Stores, No One Pays

April 14, 2025

Pratt Free Market, a free grocery store inside a library. Photo credit: Sam Delgado

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

‘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

Photo Essay: Standing in the Gaps With Feed Durham

By Katina Parker

March 12, 2025

An African American woman wearing a hoodie and mask and sunglasses stands behind a grill holding a large utensil

In Chicago, an Environmental Organization Feeds a Community

By Angela Burke

March 12, 2025

a vibrant community garden with tall sunflowers and workers

In Hawai‘i, Restoring Kava Helps Sustain Native Food Culture

February 24, 2025

The Kanaka Kava crew plant ‘awa observing traditional Native Hawaiian protocols. (Photo credit: Kanaka Kava)

Op-ed: Egg Prices Are Soaring. Are Backyard Chickens the Answer?

February 18, 2025

two black chickens and a brown chicken peck at produce in a backyard area

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.

Seattle’s Little Free Libraries Offer a Catalog of Collections and Connections

By Rebekah Denn

January 13, 2025

At a park, several people laugh and stand or sit at a table with a little green box in the foreground labeled

Growing Corn in the Desert, No Irrigation Required

By Michaela Haas

January 7, 2025

a basket holding colorful corn on the cobs

Our Best Community Food Solutions Stories of 2024

By The Civil Eats Editors

December 27, 2024

Maximina Hernández Reyes pictured at MR. Farms.

An Artisan Bakery in Buffalo Reimagines Wonder Bread

December 16, 2024

a full loaf of white bread made from milled grains, with the word wonderful in red over it and some colorful dots above it

The Mashpee Wampanoag Work With a Cape Cod Town to Restore Their Fishing Grounds

By Emma Glassman-Hughes

December 11, 2024

A member of the Wampanoag tribe wearing a baby blue t-shirt that says Aboriginal Rights

A Black-Led Agricultural Community Takes Shape in Maryland

December 4, 2024

Gail Taylor and D'Real Graham embrace on their newly acquired Spice Creek Farm in Brandywine, Maryland on November 10th, 2024

A Debut Southern Cookbook Challenges Simplified Notions of Black Cuisine

By Nicole J. Caruth, Pulizer Center Reporting Fellow

December 2, 2024

a collage image of a book cover named Our South, and an image of an African American woman chef cooking in a kitchen

A Memoir of Communal Living Celebrates Families, Relationships, and Food

By Amy Halloran

November 26, 2024

a photo of lola milholland with the cover of her book, group living and other recipes

Restoring a Cornerstone of the Local Grain Economy

By Daniel Walton

November 20, 2024

a scenic old grist mill powered by a stream in the woods

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

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)

Good Goats Make Good Neighbors

By Carmen Kohlruss

October 2, 2024

A brown goat stands up onto a tree with many of its brethren roaming among the grass next to him

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