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Mateo Kehler of Jasper Hill Farm in Greensboro, Vermont. (Photo credit: Jake Price)

How a Vermont Cheesemaker Helps Local Farms Thrive

September 4, 2024

By paying top dollar for milk and sourcing within 15 miles of its creamery, Jasper Hill supports an entire community.

Is Recycled Plastic Safe for Food Use?

August 27, 2024

Farm Stops Create New Markets for Small Farms

By Paige Hodder

August 12, 2024

The Argus Farm Stop on W. Liberty Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (Photo courtesy of Argus Farm Stop)

The Hard Work of Bringing Kelp to Market

By Alexandra Talty, Pulitzer Center Ocean Reporting Fellow

July 31, 2024

In Brazil, a Powerful Law Protects Biodiversity and Blocks Corporate Piracy

By Mark Schapiro

July 8, 2024

An overhead shot of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil. (Photo credit: FG Trade, Getty Images)

Bringing Back Local Milk, Ice Cream, and Cheese

July 2, 2024

Foggy Bottoms Boys co-owner Cody Nicholson-Stratton pictured with his son. (Photo courtesy of Foggy Bottoms Boys)

Look What Nicola Twilley Found in the Fridge

June 24, 2024

Nicola Twilley and the cover her new book, Frostbite. (Author photo credit: Rebecca Fishman)

How Specialty Recycling Companies Reduce Plastic Waste

By Tilde Herrera

June 18, 2024

Ridwell co-founder Ryan Metzger (Photo credit: Ridwell)

An Effort to Reduce Plastic Waste Just Died in the New York Legislature

By James Bruggers, Inside Climate News

June 17, 2024

a woman shopping for produce surrounded by plastic

Zero-Waste Grocery Stores in Growth Mode as Consumers Seek to Ditch Plastic

By Christina Cooke

June 10, 2024

Inside a re_ grocery store in the Mar Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles. (Photo courtesy of re_grocery)

Restaurants Create a Mound of Plastic Waste. Some Are Working to Fix That.

May 28, 2024

Climate Solutions for the Future of Coffee

May 21, 2024

A farmer harvests coffee beans in a plantation along the Mekong River in Thailand. (Photo credit: Sutiporn Somnam, Getty Images)

An Iowa Fertilizer Plant Purchase Spurs Antitrust Concerns

April 8, 2024

an iowa fertilizer factory in sunset. (photo credit: lynngrae on getty images)

From Livestock to Lion’s Mane, the Latest From the Transfarmation Project

April 1, 2024

Craig Watts in his mushroom-growing shipping container.(Photo courtesy of Mercy for Animals)

Managing ‘Brown Gold’: the Challenges—and Opportunities—of Spent Substrate

By Doug Bierend

March 19, 2024

Fruiting mushrooms in substrate. (Photo courtesy of Tivoli Mushrooms)

Regenerative Beef Gets a Boost from California Universities

March 4, 2024

Cattle graze along the California coast. (Photo credit: Denise Taylor, Getty Images)

Walmart Heirs Bet Big on Journalism

By Bill Lascher

February 28, 2024

old newspapers paired with rolls of dollar bills to convey the idea of money being invested in journalism

A Circular Economy for Fish? These Icelandic Companies Have a Plan.

By Kirsten Lie-Nielsen

February 26, 2024

The Last Front in the Battle to Save the ‘Most Important Fish’ in the Atlantic

February 20, 2024

Photo credit: Chesapeake Bay Program/Flickr

Wild Nuts Are Making a Comeback in Southern Appalachia

By Daniel Walton

December 19, 2023

Nuts dry in plastic bins at the Asheville Nuttery storeroom as Justin Holt examines a barrel of walnut shells. The hard material has a number of valuable uses, including sandblasting abrasive, kitty litter, and biochar feedstock. (Photo by Daniel Walton)

Walmart’s Pandemic Port Squeeze

December 13, 2023

walanthropy shipping containers and money representing the walton family and walmart using their resources to shift global shipping to their business benefit

Diving—and Dying—for Red Gold: The Human Cost of Honduran Lobster

By Alice Driver

December 6, 2023

Injured divers work on various exercises in a small rehabilitation room at the hospital. Dr. Henzel Roberto Pérez, the deputy director of information management at the hospital, said that one of the many problems with the lobster diving industry is “Children are working for these companies. At least one of the companies is from the United States.” (Photo credit: Jacky Muniello)

Op-ed: Walmart’s Outsized Catch

By Aaron Van Neste

November 21, 2023

Photo of a shark swimming through a school of fish, with a gritty overlay including walmart's yellow and blue colors. (Photo credit: Scott Carr, Getty Images, illustration by Civil Eats)

Walmart and EDF Forged an Unlikely Partnership. 17 Years Later, What’s Changed?

November 15, 2023

Aerial view of cargo containers, semi trailers, industrial warehouse, storage building and loading docks, renewable energy plants, Bavaria, Germany

Critic Soleil Ho: Are We Asking Too Much of Restaurants—or Not Enough?

By Twilight Greenaway

November 13, 2023

Soleil Ho, culture critic, San Francisco Chronicle. Photo credit: Celeste Noche