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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  Meat and Three, which examines ways that farming can be a radical, healing act for incarcerated and fo...

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 today's 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 spread those highly contaminated materials on fields and sold them to local farmers as well, viola...

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 his rights, for which he has fought as a member of the labor union United Farm Workers (UFW). He was...

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.