Dennis Hutson wants to recreate a Black farming paradise in California. First he has to adapt to the climate crisis.
Sustainable food and farming
The endorsement and buy-in of critical stakeholders, like fishers, can make or break a conservation project. So fishers were invited to the table as the project took shape.
Black and other farmers of color are seeing a restoration of land that was stolen or cheated from them as a key step to strengthening their economic power.
From The Current Issue
Late summer and fall offer a bounty of berries bursting with flavor—and healing potential.
Terracing has been used for centuries to help prevent fire, moderate temperatures, and make farming possible even when water is scarce.
The modern food system has a huge carbon footprint. These Indian cafés want to change that.
Indigenous communities and partners are combining ancient knowledge with modern technology to revitalize food systems and self-determined economies in the face of ever-increasing climate pressures.
In our modern world, conifers and evergreens are used for a spectrum of staples ranging from homesteads to holiday decor, though we rarely stop to recognize the Tree People who provide us these essentials.
Tribal nations are finding sustainable ways to generate jobs and food security.
Women often suffer the most from environmental degradation. A nonprofit in Colombia is trying to make their needs central to conservation.
Regenerative grazing is booming along the Mid-Atlantic, potentially helping to mitigate cows’ climate impact.
These native breweries are taking back the social and economic power of storytelling.
Philanthrocapitalism enables the destruction of nature and the erosion of democracy.
This spring, focus on reconnecting to foodways as a means to reconnect to your inner self during this season of emergence, renewal, and growth.
Most community gardens don’t last more than 10 years. But the Harambee Garden—at 12 years and running—has lessons to share.
Hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers spent a year relentlessly protesting the Modi government’s push to corporatize Indian agriculture. Their fight offers a model for social movements worldwide.
Jason Tartt saw opportunity in the terraced hillsides of his native West Virginia, both for restoring the land and for other Black farmers.
An alcohol aficionado on how spirits like bourbon fit into our food system.
“When we started our farm-to-hospital concept, we never could have anticipated a global pandemic, but the pandemic provided proof of concept.”
After years of relying on fresh produce from a local urban farm, Baltimore’s Cherry Hill neighborhood is rallying together to save their farm from the city’s eviction notice.
The residential and employment program on a North Carolina organic farm helps formerly incarcerated women find a new path.
T-shirt entrepreneurs-turned-farmers are turning an abandoned elementary school into a community hub.
The first Native-owned and Native-led land trust is working to empower and equip young Natives to successfully farm kelp.
In 1969, experts said the cause of hunger was world overpopulation. Frances Moore Lappé showed they were wrong.
Over 70 different fruits and vegetables are grown in this urban biodiversity oasis, including specialty crops from the community’s diverse cultures.
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