Food Monopolies Are Affecting The Future Of How We Eat
The food we grow and eat influences every aspect of our cities, our communities and ourselves. But in a world of global food monopolies, how...
14 Stories of Resiliency and Food Justice in Indigenous Communities
This year, Thanksgiving is fraught for many reasons, chief among them the ongoing and escalating crisis of the coronavirus pandemic. Many families have canceled or...
How Four Years of Trump Reshaped Food and Farming
In the midst of a global pandemic, a rushed Supreme Court confirmation, and a reckoning with racial justice, food and farming have been on the...
Health and environmental experts are coming for your gas stove
But natural gas combustion isn’t just bad for Earth’s atmosphere. Researchers at the Rocky Mountain Institute, a nonprofit advocacy organization for sustainability, have revealed that...
The Pandemic Has Given Organics a Big Boost—but Most Profits Aren’t Flowing to Small Producers
When COVID-19 forced communications consultant Kyle Freund and his wife to work from home this spring, the Madison, Wisconsin couple and their 5-year-old daughter began...
Nutrition Education is Helping Low-Income Families Eat Healthier
In addition to math and reading lessons, many third graders in Alabama’s low-income communities learn about nutrition from animated characters like Shining Rainbow, who loves...
‘Gather’ Centers Efforts to Heal and Rebuild Indigenous Traditions and Foodways
Director Sanjay Rawal is the first to admit that he, the First Nations Development Institute, and the half dozen Indigenous-led partner organizations they worked with...
12 Native-Owned Food Businesses to Support on Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Today, on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we celebrate and honor the original Americans. To be Indigenous means to be inextricably intertwined with one’s homeland since time...