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Youth Are Flipping an Abandoned North Carolina Prison into a Sustainable Farm "By transforming a decaying prison into a flourishing farm, these young men are avoiding the criminal justice system—and creating a model to share." This story from the Solutions Journalism Exchange originally published by Civil Eats highlights one farm is working to address issues with the criminal justice system, unemployment, food access and health inequity. For further listening, check out episode 80 of  Mea...

Getty Images Each day at 5 p.m. we collect the five top food and supplement headlines of the day, making it easy for you to catch up on todays most important natural products industry news. Dead bees, sick residents from pesticide pollution in Nebraska A Nebraska-based ethanol plant owned by AltEn has been using corn seed coated in systemic pesticides since at least 2018, and the local population (both human and bee) is suffering greatly as a result. The company sp...

Related As summer arrives, farmworkers will especially feel the consequences of a warming climate. Amadeo Sumano, a strawberry worker in California, recalled feeling dizzy and experiencing headaches during harvest season, when delivering strawberries onto a motorized, moving table that blows hot exhaust. It’s a double-bind, he explains in Spanish: if he were to position himself farther from the exhaust, it would require lugging the strawberries a greater distance. Fortunately, Sumano knows h...

Is an environmental journalist, producer, and writer specializing in environment, climate change, biodiversity, land rights, and gender. She focuses on traditional peoples and communities mainly in Brazil, Peru, Ecuador (Amazon

Efforts to decolonize forest protection have been stalling for years. COVID-19 might give the movement the urgency it needs.

Filed under: Queer Farmers Are Changing the Landscape Queer beekeepers, urban agriculturalists, and rural livestock workers are challenging not only conventional farming and food production practices, but also the image of farming itself Get to know the businesses rethinking queer hospitality and community for a new generation. When Lee Hennessy talks about farming, he talks about choosing happiness. For years he had been living in LA, working in media and Hollywood and advertising and hati...

Celebrating America’s Gas Station Food From the Editor: Everything you missed in food news last week Share this story Illustrations by Naya-Cheyenne This post originally appeared on May 29, 2021 in Amanda Kludt’s newsletter “From the Editor,” a roundup of the most vital news and stories in the food world each week. . Earlier this year, as we were planning coverage for the summer (we have a lot of great stuff coming), we wanted to kick off the season with something joyful, positive, and...

Stephen Satterfield, the host of the new Netflix docuseries, shares his experience participating in a screen adaptation of Dr. Jessica B. Harris's work, the power of film to shift and reclaim narratives, and the beauty and joy of the African food diaspora.

The Movement for Black Lives has come for your racist food brands. In the wake of the murder of George Floyd, perhaps one of the most-overdue and yet least-expected changes in American culture finally began: the replacement of racist, stereotypical “spokescharacters” on packaged foods, including Uncle Ben, Aunt Jemima, and Mia—the Native American “butter maiden” from Land O’Lakes. While Land O’Lakes announced that it would remove Mia from its packaging the month before Floyd’s ...

The Movement for Black Lives has come for your racist food brands. In the wake of the murder of George Floyd, perhaps one of the most-overdue and yet least-expected changes in American culture finally began: the replacement of racist, stereotypical “spokescharacters” on packaged foods, including Uncle Ben, Aunt Jemima, and Mia — the Native American “butter maiden” from Land O’Lakes. While Land O’Lakes announced that it would remove Mia from its packaging the month before Floyd’...