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This story first appeared on Civil Eats. On a Saturday in late October, Carolyn Phinney stands hip-deep in a half acre of vegetables, at the nucleus of what will one day be 15 acres of productive farmland. "You can't even see the pathways," she says, surrounded by the literal fruits of her labors. The patch is a wealth of herbs, tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, kale, winter squash, and zucchini. So much zucchini — fruits the size of bowling pins hidden under leaves as big as umbrellas. "Zucchini plants are supposed to be 30 inches across. Ours are 8 feet," she says. "Everything looks like it's...

Related On Tuesday, just a day after Congress finally passed a third COVID-19 relief package and two days before Christmas, Congressman David Scott (D-Georgia) was eager to both reflect on the past and plan for the future. The 75-year-old representative started by describing his grandparents’ South Carolina farm where he was born and later picked cotton, fed the hogs, and milked the cows. (“You name it, I did it.”) He recalled later living in Scarsdale, New York, with his parents, where he was “the only Black kid in the whole city.” Fast forward to his first run for Congress in 200...

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. California farmers of color need more support during the pandemic. Can private efforts help? While some farmers have benefited from the renewed interest in local food systems, California's BIPOC farmers are still recovering from closed wholesale accounts and diminished attendance at farmers' markets. A record number of Calfornians are going hungry and yet these small producers...

This story first appeared on Civil Eats. If you know where to look in the fall, you'll find patches of ground turned red with wild apples in certain parts of Ithaca, New York. Steve Selin knows where to look — and he seeks that bounty out in his role as cider maker at South Hill Cider. Although Selin owns a small orchard just outside of downtown Ithaca, he also spends time searching the hedgerows and forests around his part of the Finger Lakes for wild apples to use in his cider. Advertisement: Steve Selin gathering wild apples to make cider. (Photo credit: South Hill Cider)

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