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. In the ...

On a crisp, windy day in March, 17-year-old Norman Garcia-Lopez tries to coax a donkey and a herd of 14 sheep from a fenced yard out to open pasture. “Come on, Miss Easter,” he says, holding a shallow ...

American farmers would prefer not to use H-2A, and farmworker advocates say the program enables abuse. So how did it become agriculture’s go-to option?

Scientists and farmers are now seeking to stop the spread of a farm-raised golden oysters mushrooms into the wild.

As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, Civil Eats remains dedicated to celebrating the complexity and diversity of the nation’s food system. Here, we offer a series that seeks to expand the ...

The catastrophic fire that just ravaged more than 2,000 acres and at least 2,000 homes on Maui, and claimed 114 lives and counting is inextricably linked to the island’s agricultural history. Expand ...

Less than a week after President Donald Trump signed an executive order supporting regenerative agriculture practices that he said would “reduce overall use” of chemical pesticides, his Environmental ...

Compostable bioplastics are largely made using the same processes as for traditional plastics, using either plant materials ...

When Lynn Utesch and his wife, Nancy, started their grass-fed beef operation in central Wisconsin just over two decades ago, they were surrounded by relatively small family-run dairy operations. Those ...

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. Nearly all ...

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) has Wendy’s—the world’s third largest hamburger chain—in its crosshairs. The group is officially calling for a boycott, and they kicked off the effort with a ...

The podcast Big Sugar tells the story of sugarcane production on American soil. Over the course of nine episodes, host Celeste Headlee speaks to Caribbean sugarcane cutters who worked in Florida and ...