Civil Eats

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Food justice reporting has been a cornerstone of Civil Eats’ coverage since we launched 15 years ago. This year, we further explored how people are working toward food justice in their communities. We are committed to elevating the voices of people who produce our food, as well as those who are affected by its production.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Across the city of Atlanta, Georgia, many organizations are working to build a food system that centers community wellbeing with the health of the planet. On April 14, Food Tank is heading to Atlanta to partner with Spelman College and Emory University for the Summit “ Empowering Eaters: Access, Affordability, and Healthy Choices.”

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Modern Farmer

JULY 19, 2024

When Yvonne Martinez shops for her weekly allotment of food from the Skyview Elementary and Middle School Pantry in Anaheim, California, her box isn’t filled with nearly expired canned goods. Instead, it’s brimming with in-season fruits and vegetables that were harvested less than 25 miles away. Volunteers working at Harvest Solution.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

When she moved to Oregon in 2006, she noticed a contrasting lack in access to culturally relevant foods, which has been a driving force behind her decades-long work championing Indigenous food sovereignty through agriculture, advocacy, and activism. Many tribes in Alaska are very intertribal, sharing similar foods and waterways.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 21, 2024

and sovereign Indigenous nations, and grant unlimited harvests, even from private property. People of the First Light For thousands of years, the Wampanoag —the “People of the First Light”—have harvested fish for food, trade, art, and fertilizer. All but one of those acres, however, are landlocked. Not just food.”

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Sustainable Harvest International

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

New York City, New York - The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) announced a Commitment to Action by Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) at its 2023 meeting in late September. SHI was recognized as a leader in the category Climate Resilience for its expansion of carbon-negative agroforestry and other agroecology practices in Central America.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Like so many Indigenous communities, the Hualapai experienced outsized food insecurity during the pandemic. The northwestern Arizona tribe received sporadic food donations through a local church but wanted to take matters into its own hands. From there, Ford foresees this as the first cohort of many.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

For many seasons, most of the kale, chard, tomatoes, beets, napa cabbage, carrots, and collard greens harvested by Growing Home , a 1.5-acre acre organic urban farm in the impoverished Englewood community on Chicago’s South Side, was destined for marketplaces within the city’s more affluent communities. But when Janelle St.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The food systems advocate, land steward, and beekeeper came of age during the civil rights movement in Kentucky and has spent five decades working for social and racial justice. In 1972, he founded the Good Foods Co-op in Lexington. Jim Embry sees tending to land as a sacred and spiritual responsibility.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Catastrophe loomed everywhere I looked: in the dust bowls on the once-fertile plains of central Turkey, in the vanishing lakes of Mexico City, in the fetid cesspools outside the factory farms of North Carolina, in the disease-ravaged olive trees of Puglia, in the rapid wiping away of diverse food webs in every biome.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 15, 2025

The organization is working within communities to facilitate local land access and support strong local food systems. A lot of folks are retiring, Jean Theron Willoughby, Executive Director at Agrarian Trust, tells Food Tank. Willoughby tells Food Tank. And well keep growing our little one-acre market garden, Terry says.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

On the back 16 acres of Walla Walla Community College, 30 Red Angus cows stand munching on hairy vetch, ryegrass and other cover crops that were planted to help restore the soil. Walla Walla Community College hopes to offer surplus agricultural products at its food pantry, too. who will direct the new project. “As

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Food Tank

MAY 16, 2024

Last year, if you were on the Upper West Side and popped into Harvest Kitchen for a bite, you’d find a casual atmosphere and a sizable four-page menu of burgers, sandwiches, tacos, bowls, salads, and mains. During Earth Month, Harvest became the latest signatory to New York City’s Plant-Powered Carbon Challenge.

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ProAg

JULY 26, 2023

Sunflower acres have decreased 20% this year compared to 2022 at 1.35 million acres. Harvested areas are also expected to decrease by 20% to 1.29 million acres. Oil-type sunflower acres are down 24% from last year, while non-oil varieties are estimated at 164,000, up 15% from last year.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 9, 2023

When Mark Joseph began noticing reports about food prices climbing due to inflation and other economic factors, he started looking into options on how to cut food costs. Communal gardening is the practice of growing food in a collectively shared space. Joseph joined a local community garden project just outside St.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 16, 2024

Some are even ready to harvest. READ: How to apply for food aid and assistance in New Jersey But Mustafa said serving Essex County residents isn’t easy when governments don’t consider urban farming as a viable solution to bring affordable, fresh food to food-insecure communities.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Per calorie, though, rice produces fewer emissions than most staple foods, including meat, fish, eggs, dairy, and even other grains like wheat and corn. The team in Alexandria is testing 20 more varieties at their 17-acre farm, located on a former cotton plantation that serves as the central research hub for crop and equipment trials.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 7, 2025

When Michael Kotutwa Johnson goes out to the acreage behind his stone house to harvest his corn, his fields look vastly different from the endless rows you see in much of rural North America. Photo courtesy of Michael Kotutwa Johnson) His harvest looks unique, too. By bringing back the food, you also bring back the culture.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The tribe only owns roughly 27,000 acres of its 120,000-acre reservation, after U.S. In the past five years, three Nebraska tribes—the Winnebago, the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska and the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska—have bought a combined 3,000-odd acres of farmland that was once theirs. But that reality is starting to change.

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Food Tank

MARCH 8, 2024

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. We’re reaching out to keep you in the loop on the amazing All Things Food Summit next week in Austin, Texas, as part of the SXSW festival. Kavehkar , Texas Monthly; Admiral Rachel L. Levine , U.S.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

Across seven chapters, each uncovering a different element of the Welsh landscape, Graves celebrates the diverse ecosystems of his homeland, revealing how the land has been transformed by humans ever since they first began harvesting wood and herding animals. Agriculture had not yet quite arrived as a practice and food was abundant.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Sustainable, exceptional ingredients are the cornerstone of great food. I started understanding the crucial impact of regenerative agriculture practices on the food I serve to my customers and the food served to the world once I became a chef and business owner. The world is fed by Nebraskans—that makes me proud.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Poplar, beech and oak trees are the most common hosts; truffles receive food from the tree’s roots,l and, in exchange, deliver nutrients to the soil in which the tree grows. It only grows in Alba, Italy and one secret corner of France, where a team of scientists managed to harvest a handful following decades of investment and effort.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Even on a compact farm like Small Axe, which spans only four acres — the national average is 446 acres — there was much to be done: crop rotations to plan, greenhouse doors to finish, a new shed to build. But, as part of the nonprofit Black Farmers Collective, Small Axe is more than just a place for growing food. Still, W.E.B.

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Farming Secrets

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Whether you’re plopped on a small plot of land or plodding through too many acres, take time to ponder the wealth waiting in the ground to be found and nurtured. And know with each step if you get stuck that a rich community of other soil and food lovers is waiting to help when things get too muddy.

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Civil Eats

JULY 31, 2024

That day, they’d been out to their four-acre farm and back twice, harvesting a total of 6,300 pounds. Maine is the heart of America’s farmed seaweed industry, supplying half its harvest— well over a million pounds —last season. Then they sell the harvest to ASF, which picks up the kelp on the dock.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 12, 2024

“They are like rock stars,” says Bill Brinkerhoff, Argus’ co-owner, a tall, friendly businessman with a passion for local food. Argus represents an emerging business model, the farm stop, which connects consumers and farmers in a local food web. percent, from 434 acres to 463 acres. It’s a small but expanding niche.

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Food Tank

MARCH 7, 2025

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tanks newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. For decadescertainly for most of my careerdiscussions about food and agriculture systems have been pushed to the sidelines. Political leaders are recognizing that food is central to climate solutions. But thats changing now.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Slow Food USA is supporting this experiment and a second crop in 2024 with a $4,000 grant. I would have thought it would develop faster in the California market, where people are willing to pay more for local foods,” Carter said. In good rain years, it can yield a harvest; in dryer years, it can be used for forage.”

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Still in its research phase, the 86-acre project is operated by Ocean Rainforest, a company that aims to fight climate change by growing seaweed at scale: 1 million tons a year by 2030. seaweed farm of 1 to 4 acres—and a new frontier for ocean farming. seaweed farm of 1 to 4 acres—and a new frontier for ocean farming.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Only the rice becomes food for humans. Meanwhile, the Delta itself is a food desert. Food insecurity is rampant. If we took 5 percent of the acres and diverted them into almost anything that wasnt a commodity, its literally an additional $2.5 food system more resilient. Grocery stores are scarce.

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Sustainable Harvest International

MARCH 25, 2021

Boston, MA — March 25 — Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) launched its “Million Farm Transformation” initiative, Founder Florence Reed announced today. This plan gives them those alternatives, to help them and to help us.” Providing that technical assistance is how we can best feed the world and keep the planet healthy.”

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Sprouting deep within the verdant pleats of Oʻahu’s Koʻolau Mountains, Heʻeia stream winds through Kakoʻo ʻOʻiwi , a non-profit organization centered on a six-acre taro farm, before emptying into the wide mouth of Kane‘ohe Bay. One acre can bank about a foot of water,” he says. “If

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 18, 2024

But the couple has recently hit a milestone: During their busiest harvest days, they’ve had to hire people to help with their celery crop. Then, they were invited to farm half an acre of land owned by the organization. Now, the couple are in the process of expanding to 5 acres.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 5, 2023

slide-intro --> A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. million acres of the Central Valley. They are fed substitutes for their natural foods of pollen and nectar so they will quickly repopulate the hive to be ready for almonds. Then billions of crabs died. In 2018, California had 1.1

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Our next post in the series will explore what the Census shows us about local and regional food systems. The data provided by the Census of Agriculture is an essential and comprehensive tool for all stakeholders to understand what is happening in US agriculture and food. A positive finding is that there were an additional 2.6

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

It’s a great gateway crop,” says Don DiLillo, owner of Finest Foods in Huntington, New York, for ushering in a new breed of novice farmers. Photography submitted by Don DiLillo, Finest Foods. Photography submitted by Don DiLillo, Finest Foods. Plus, he adds, “I can do farm chores in my pajamas.”

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