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Related Some children have just returned part-time to the school where Michael Gasper works, and he is busy. Gasper is the district’s supervisor of nutrition services in Holmen, Wisconsin, a small community just north of La Crosse, with six schools and 3,800 students. His team is coordinating both in-school meals and meal delivery for students in remote learning, while also running a vibrant farm to school program. And on this mid-February day, Gasper is preparing his newly remodeled kitchen...

News News Based on facts, either observed and verified directly by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Baking Homemade Bread Becomes a Public Good Community Loaves volunteers Megan Adams, left, and her mother, Shera Adams, donate their loaves to St. Leo’s Food Bank in Tacoma, Washington. Photo from Community Loaves The Seattle-based Community Loaves project enlists home bakers to help those facing food insecurity during the pandemic. Feb 25, 2021 The irony hit ...

Related Annastasia Mullen has been expanding her home garden in Des Moines, Iowa, since 2015. After starting with three raised beds in her backyard, she rented three more in a community garden nearby and started planting flowers in addition to produce like tomatoes, peppers, leafy greens, and root vegetables. When COVID-19 caused food system disruptions last spring, Mullen felt driven to grow more food than ever before and share it with her neighbors. “In a small way, it was something I coul...

This story first appeared on Civil Eats. Valarie Mckenzie struggled to control her anger early in her life and was kicked out of her home at 18. She roamed everywhere from Grand Rapids, Michigan to Atlanta, Georgia, but spent most of her time living in downtown Minneapolis, where she slept on public benches and in bus shelters. The citys unrelenting bright lights, which she constantly tried to escape, reminded her of exactly what she lacked: a safe and warm place to sleep at night. Late last su...

In Mexico’s vibrant forests, locals adapt to a year without tourists Ecotourism and conservation efforts go hand-in-hand. What happens when the tourists disappear? ByAnnelise Jolley Email When she was 10 years old, Ana Moreno watched buses full of tourists pull into her village. They had come to see the monarch butterflies, which arrive in flurries each November and stay the winter in the Sierra Madre’s forested peaks. Moreno watched the monarch enthusiasts pour from buses, chattering to ea...

This article originally appeared on Undark. Carnivores and cattle ranchers love Frank Mitloehner. As people who produce or eat meat look for ways to defend their effect on the planet, Mitloehner, an air quality scientist at the University of California, Davis, has been there to voice support. Mitloehners following has come from both social and traditional media. On Twitter, he is prolific, asking, for instance, why anyone would want "ultra-processed faux milk" compared to the real thing, or sha...

This story first appeared on Civil Eats. When the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Department of Agriculture (USDA), released new Dietary Guidelines for Americans on Dec. 29, 2020, they looked almost identical to the ones released five years earlier. There were new guidelines related to pregnancy, breastfeeding, and children under two, but to those whod been paying attention to the process, what stood out was what had not changed. Most glaringly, the guidelines failed to take...

Related Before taking office, President Biden committed to assembling a diverse administration that would “look like the country.” Then, hours after the inauguration, he began laying out a plan to go beyond representation, to root out inequities within the federal government, and to advance racial justice. He directed all agencies to complete “equity assessments” within 200 days and appointed Susan Rice, national security adviser under former President Barack Obama, to oversee the effo...

Why don't we pay as much attention to the benefits of resilience as to the benefits of efficiency? We tend to get good at what we can measure, and it's easy to produce numbers that support efficiency, such as crop yields per acre. Resilience cannot be easily measured, though.

The Indigenous Seed Growers Network sprouted from the pandemic, and is quickly evolving to help communities secure their own food systems for generations to come. Since 2009, the Civil Eats editorial team has published award-winning and groundbreaking news and commentary about the American food system, and worked to make complicated, underreported stories—on climate change, the environment, social justice, animal welfare, policy, health, nutrition, and the farm bill— more accessible to a m...