One morning a month, Marisel Robles arrives at 6 a.m. to set up the Súper Solidario market in Caguas, Puerto Rico. The once-a-month local food market offers products from over 15 small-scale local ...
A group of 20 states and the Federal Trade Commission allege that Dollar General has failed to address thousands of ...
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 ...
The money will be distributed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), in a bid to offset high costs of fuel that have hurt many farmers across the country. Republicans are facing political ...
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No matter where Ginger Brooks Takahashi lived as a child, her mother planted perilla. The family moved often, living for spells in West Virginia, Oregon, and Italy. But the garden always yielded ...
For Kamanamaikalani Beamer, love and commitment to the land have the power to restore Native Hawaiians’ connection to place, community, and to those who came before—and will come after.
Today, when farmers harvest common American crops like wheat, rice, and vegetables, the crops look like did 100 years ago. But research shows those same crops are losing their nutritional value. These ...