Building an Alternative Supply Chain for Shiitake Mushroom Growers

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@civileats.com | 1 year ago

What the Insect Crisis Means for Food, Farming–and Humanity

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@civileats.com | 1 year ago

There Is Ample Evidence That Agroecology Can Transform the Food System

R.C. “Merc” Mercure Jr., a technology entrepreneur who helped found Ball Brothers Research Corp., which later became Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., died suddenly on Thursday in Boulder at… | Continue reading


@civileats.com | 2 years ago

‘Fruits of Labor’ Provides an Intimate Look at the Life of a Teenage Farmworker

Read to the end for a series of tweets that have thoroughly broken me | Continue reading


@civileats.com | 2 years ago

We Can Grow Coffee in California. But Should We?

The process of creating optimized, hardware specific, compute architectures can be time consuming and complex. The ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group (HAWG) is working to simplify hardware acceleration engineering tasks by creating acceleration kernels based on open standa … | Continue reading


@civileats.com | 2 years ago

Is Farming with Reclaimed Water the Solution to a Drier Future?

In drought-prone California, several farms are demonstrating the benefits of growing food with relatively abundant post-treatment water supplies. | Continue reading


@civileats.com | 3 years ago

Fish Fraud Is Real. What Should We Eat?

After a recent investigation into local fish seller Sea to Table revealed some questionable practices, author Paul Greenberg asks what the hell do we do now if we want to eat local seafood? | Continue reading


@civileats.com | 3 years ago

Iowa Farmers Face Climate-Fueled Destruction, Industry Says It’s ‘Just Weather’

Flooding, drought, and a derecho storm have recently upended Iowa’s farms, but the Iowa Farm Bureau and the USDA are actively pushing back on the climate narrative. | Continue reading


@civileats.com | 3 years ago

Can Mission-Driven Food Companies Scale Up Without Selling Out?

A groundbreaking new stewardship business model creates standards that prioritize purpose over profit. | Continue reading


@civileats.com | 4 years ago

Regenerating New York Harbor, One Billion Oysters at a Time

The Billion Oyster Project connects young people to the city's waterfronts and aims to revive its oyster population to reduce pollution and build climate resilience. | Continue reading


@civileats.com | 4 years ago

Open Source Technology Could Be a Boon to Farmers

The rise of ag-tech has brought new options for farmers looking to optimize their operations. But for small farmers who can't afford pricey new tech, open source farming tools are here to help. | Continue reading


@civileats.com | 4 years ago

What Have the Last 10 Years of School Food Policy Taught Us?

From school lunch shaming to universal free meals, four experts discuss the changes the past decade has brought to the nation’s school food program and how to make healthy, nutritious food accessible to all. | Continue reading


@civileats.com | 4 years ago

Climate Change-Fueled Valley Fever Is Hitting Farmworkers Hard

The potentially deadly disease is caused by a soil-borne fungus that thrives in dry climates. In California’s Central Valley, farmworkers are bearing the brunt of the problem | Continue reading


@civileats.com | 4 years ago

The Race to Produce a Slower-Growing Chicken

The co-founder of Blue Apron is banking on a new model for bringing pasture-raised chicken to the masses. But carving out a niche in a complex, crowded market won’t be easy.  | Continue reading


@civileats.com | 4 years ago

Is It a Farm If It Doesn't Sell Food?

More than one-fifth of all farms in the U.S. report making $0 in annual sales. Because the USDA won’t release that data, the nation is missing critical information about the health of the food system. | Continue reading


@civileats.com | 4 years ago

Iowans Unite to Stop Hog Farms from Polluting Their Community

Families in the Hawkeye State are joining together to stop the spread of large-scale farms that they say are polluting the environment and destroying their way of life. | Continue reading


@civileats.com | 5 years ago

New Archive Reveals How the Food Industry Mimics Big Tobacco to Suppress Science

A new trove of industry documents made public by UCSF also reveals conflicts of interest and aggressive tactics to squelch important public health information. | Continue reading


@civileats.com | 5 years ago

The Hidden Resilience of ‘Food Desert’ Neighborhoods

Researchers and scholars are exploring the plight—and the power—of urban communities struggling to meet their nutritional needs and asking hard questions about how the debate is framed. | Continue reading


@civileats.com | 5 years ago

Is the Second Farm Crisis Upon Us?

Farmers across the country are in a state of emergency with dairy and grain producers, new farmers, and farmers of color being hit the hardest. | Continue reading


@civileats.com | 5 years ago

Despite the heated political rhetoric on both sides of the issue, the realities of the changing climate are driving farmers of all stripes to take action. | Continue reading


@civileats.com | 5 years ago

How a Kansas Town Held Off a Tyson Plant

Tonganoxie residents are the latest in a wave of rural communities standing up to Big Ag. | Continue reading


@civileats.com | 5 years ago