Ecologist Jonathan Lundgren launched the 1,000 Farms Initiative to compare regenerative and conventional farming. The data is ...

The Trump administration has called drops in federal food assistance enrollment good news. Access advocates and recipients ...

October 21, 2026 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a proposed rule on Wednesday aimed at protecting recipients of federal food assistance from benefit theft, but without federal ...

As midterms approach, West Virginia residents describe the impact of the past two years of the Trump administration on the ...

How the daughter of author Wendell Berry and executive director of the Berry Center advocates for agrarian ideals.

Conservation efforts like this one in Chicago can help prevent the loss of land that is currently stymying small farming.

In 2018, Robin Greenfield decided to grow and forage everything he ate for a year. Disillusioned with the industrialized food system and its impacts, Greenfield wanted to connect with the sources of ...

Expand your understanding of food systems as a Civil Eats member. Enjoy unlimited access to our groundbreaking reporting, engage with experts, and connect with a community of changemakers. On Friday, ...

On a chilly evening this past spring, Megan Humphrey welcomed more than 60 of her neighbors, some of whom she had never met, to dinner at her home in the Old North End of Burlington, Vermont. Expand ...

Expand your understanding of food systems as a Civil Eats member. Enjoy unlimited access to our groundbreaking reporting, engage with experts, and connect with a community of changemakers. Over the ...

When Ali Hayton, owner of the International Marketplace grocery store in Point Roberts, Washington, met with Democratic Senator Patty Murray and state business owners in the spring of 2025, she had a ...

There is a story we have been told about agriculture for a very long time, and it goes something like this: Farms get bigger, machines get bigger, companies get bigger. Production gets more ...