Civil Eats | Food and Agriculture News
WEB4 days ago · Congress Likely to Preserve OSHA Loophole That Endangers Animal Ag Workers. A 2022 Civil Eats investigation found that a budget rider that prohibits OSHA from spending money to regulate small farms leaves most animal-ag operations without oversight. Lawmakers appear poised to renew the rider once again.
Only Two States Have Passed ‘Right to Garden’ Laws. Will Others …
WEBAug 20, 2022 · From Michigan to Massachusetts, people have been thwarted—or even outright banned—from growing food on their own property. But thanks to the concerted efforts of people like Virgil and their legal allies, “right to garden” laws are slowly gaining traction. Such legislation remains scarce at the state level, however—only Illinois and ...
Environment - Civil Eats
WEB17 Food and Ag Approaches to Tackling the Climate Crisis. By The Civil Eats Editors. August 5, 2024.
The Co-op Farming Model Might Help Save America’s Small Farms
WEBBy Annelise Jolley. October 3, 2018. Across the U.S.—from New England to California—a small but growing movement of farmers is foregoing traditional farm ownership in favor of a cooperative model. In Maine, four Somali Bantu refugees raise crops on shared land at New Roots Cooperative Farm, growing both regional and Somali produce.
How Four Years of Trump Reshaped Food and Farming
WEBNov 2, 2020 · Most notably, since the pandemic began, Trump has used the Defense Production Act to allow meat companies to compel their workers to return to work, despite worsening COVID-19 outbreaks.A ProPublica investigation later found that the North American Meat Institute, which represents large companies including Tyson and Cargill, wrote a draft of the order.
The Nation’s First Regenerative Dairy Works with Nature to Heal …
WEBSep 7, 2021 · Earlier this year, Alexandre Farm became the first dairy in the U.S. to become “certified regenerative”—receiving both the Land to Market verification (EOV) and the Regenerative Organic Certified (ROC) seal for their 100 percent grass-fed milk and yogurt.. It took the Alexandres more than three decades to fine-tune their system of building up soil, restoring wetlands, and bringing a ...
Kate Nelson - Civil Eats
WEBAn Alaska Native Tlingit tribal member, Nelson is an award-winning writer and editor living in Minneapolis. She's the former editor-in-chief of Artful Living, a top U.S. boutique lifestyle magazine. She's interviewed such luminaries as Padma Lakshmi, chef Sean Sherman, and "Reservation Dogs" creator Sterlin Harjo and written for publications ...
Food Justice | Civil Eats
WEBOur Best Food Justice Stories of 2023. By The Civil Eats Editors. December 27, 2023.
How a South Carolina Farmer Is Adapting an Heirloom Rice to …
WEBSeptember 16, 2020. “When I was a kid, my parents were growing no rice; all the rice had vanished,” says Hardeeville, South Carolina horticulturist Rollen Chalmers with a soft lilt to his voice. Though the generations-deep Gullah tradition of growing rice had faded by the time Chalmers was growing up, he tapped into his family’s ...
400 Years After the Slave Trade Began, Tracing the Roots of …
WEBDec 5, 2019 · After Emancipation in 1863, African Americans began to write cookbooks that reached the mainstream public. In 1881, What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking included a recipe called “Jumberlie” that looked a lot like modern-day jambalaya. As the dish evolved over time, it was commonly identified by the use of tomatoes or tomato paste, as well as a mix of shrimp, andouille sausage ...