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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.

Inside the Food Policy Tracker

By Riley Ramirez

June 26, 2025

Paulina Velasco from the Institute for Nonprofit News moderated a discussion with Brian Calvert, senior editor, Lisa Held, senior staff reporter and contributing editor, and Matt Wheeland, operations director.

Op-ed: There Is No Future Where the Lakota and the Buffalo Don’t Exist Together

By Elsie Dubray

June 25, 2025

A National Soil-Judging Contest Prepares College Students to Steward the Land

June 24, 2025

An unidentifiable farmer holds soil from a field.

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)

How Big Ag Lobbyists Perpetuate Climate Inequity

By Brian Calvert

June 17, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 11: The U.S. Capitol building is seen in the rain on February 11, 2024 in Washington, DC. The Senate is convening for a rare Sunday session to vote on a supplementary spending bill that includes military aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan without addressing border security after Republicans in the House abandoned an agreement that they initially agreed to. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

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)

Everything You Know About the Dietary Guidelines Is Wrong

June 2, 2025

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Label Man character was seen at the Department of Agriculture celebration of the introduction of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010, an informational event in the Whitten Café in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, March 2, 2011. (Photo credit: USDA)

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

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

May 21, 2025

an image on the left with the

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

Livestock Producers Seek to Defend Packers and Stockyards Rules from Industry Attack

May 19, 2025

Portrait of a woman working on Montana ranch

MAHA Supporters Form New Organization to Boost RFK’s Goals in D.C.

May 16, 2025

Calley Means speaks during a news conference at the Health and Human Services Department on April 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo credit: Andrew Harnik, Getty Images)

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

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)

Proposal Could Threaten Endangered Species’ Survival in Farm Country

By Brian Calvert

May 7, 2025

A monarch butterfly on tropical milkweed. (Photo credit: Sue Zellers, Getty Images)

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.

The Future of California’s Climate-Smart Farming Programs

May 5, 2025

an elder Hmong American woman wearing gloves and a hat stands under an umbrella to string up a produce on a trellis on a farm in California

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

Op-ed: Trump’s Disastrous First 100 Days for Food, Farming, and Fairness

By Kate Anderson

April 29, 2025

Clouds above the US Capitol in Washington DC

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