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Despite an increasing number of farmers growing food in cities urban agriculture wasn’t acknowledged in the farm bill until 2018. Lisa Held, journalist with Civil Eats and former Farm Report host provides the scoop on how the Farm Bill will impact the future of urban ag. 

The Caribbean spiny lobster is a coveted delicacy. But its flourishing trade comes at the expense of the Indigenous Miskito community living along the Atlantic coast of Honduras, according to an investigation published in December by nonprofit news outlet Civil Eats. The prized lobster, Panulirus argus, which Honduras exports predominantly to the U.S., was a […]

Agricultural attorney Jillian Hishaw has been advocating on behalf of Black landowners across the country for over two decades after losing her family’s Oklahoma farm.

Pork is the world's most widely eaten meat, and one of the most popular in the U.S., but there are lots of myths surrounding it. Here's the truth.

American pine nuts have been prized for thousands of years. So why are we importing from China?

Including a farm in your master plan isn’t just trendy, it also gives back

Here’s how I’d parse it: being a settler is going to be an increasingly common human experience in the future. Lasch teaches us useful things about the politics of settler livelihood-making, while Ghosh teaches us useful things about how settlers must avoid becoming settler-colonists.

"We’ve taken a lot of human interaction out of the process and left just enough," says Steve Ells, a Chiptole founder now working on Kernel

Freelance food systems reporter Thin Lei Win believes that if the world doesn’t change the way it produces, processes, transports, consumes and discards food, climate change will worsen and hunger levels will spike. But she also worries that powerful interests want to keep the status quo and cites parallels with the tobacco and fossil fuel industries. More in Freelance Files,

Join Margaret and Irene Li as they discuss “Perfectly Good Food: A Totally Achievable Zero Waste Approach to Home Cooking."