At Freetown Farm, members of the community can learn the names of medicinal herbs and harvest vegetables, all while developing a deeper relationship to the land and local community.
Sustainable food and farming
Raj Patel’s new film follows one Malawian activist’s efforts to bring the immediacy of climate change to the U.S.
Research by Elinor Ostrom and her colleagues show how people cooperate to manage, and sustain, common resources.
Community fridge networks across the country are an important start—and symbol—in the work to make sure everyone has enough to eat.
3 composters who are thinking about the soil as well as better food waste systems.
While eating a plant-based diet is often presented as a White, millennial fad that accompanies gentrification, Black people have a long and rich tradition of plant-based eating.
Growing greens can be a powerful tool for change.
A Vermont nonprofit is connecting independent farms with buyers and distributors, reducing food surplus and working to eliminate food insecurity.
A grassroots project to build biomass-heated greenhouses aims to alleviate food insecurity in the communities most affected by it.
Changing ownership and wealth distribution, even at a small scale, presents a model for how to ultimately address the climate crisis.
A California farm is making sure wastewater no longer goes to waste.
Transferring wealth to Black-led groups is a particularly potent form of reparations with immediate benefits to communities of color.
Local agriculture initiatives offer a way toward food security through reconnection with the land and the true spirit of aloha.
A community in Colombia is ditching traditional capitalist models in order to build a collective future.
Meet the farmers growing traditional Laotian foods in the hills of North Carolina.
As climate change threatens rainfed farming, millets offer a way to achieve food, financial, and environmental security.
A new film follows food activists seeking to restore salmon, buffalo, and the nourishing legacy of Native cultures.
Nestled on a wide plateau surrounded by the Espinhaço Mountains in southeastern Brazil is the city of Belo Horizonte, roughly 275 miles north of Rio de Janeiro. The city of
“Use everything, waste nothing.”
For fermentation revivalist Sandor Katz, making sourdough, kimchi, and kombucha is about more than eating well at home. It’s a metaphor for creative systemic change, bubbling away from the ground up.
Chef Regina Tchelly repurposes food waste to provide access to healthy food and remedy a broken social system.
Taking care of the soil is the key to making farms and farmers more resilient.
An unlikely partnership has emerged between ranchers and conservationists in the Sunshine State, in order to protect the state’s air, water, and wildlife.
The August explosion in Beirut destroyed the country’s largest grain silo, accelerating a food shortage crisis. But Lebanese expatriates are rising to the challenge.
If we focus on the best possible outcomes, journalist Judith D. Schwartz argues together we can restore ecosystems.
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