FERN’s Friday Feed is taking a break this week, but we still wanted to make a few reading recommendations – and let you know about a cool event we were part of. Last week, FERN’s ...

Eight years ago, when I first started to pitch publishers on the idea of a cookbook about fish in cans, the response was a resounding, diplomatically phrased iteration of ‘Ew.’ … One ...

By Theodore Ross We released the newest episode of Forked, our podcast on food politics and policy, earlier this week. It tries to reckon with what the One Big Beautiful Act — heretofore known as ...

Even before Donald Trump retook the White House, US policymakers had created a paradox of plenty in the nation’s agricultural system: environmentally destructive overproduction of a few major ...

Greece’s olive oil crisis is bad enough to tempt thieves Olives were a low-stress crop for millennia, but Greece shows how climate change has made the harvest much less predictable—and growing regions ...

The Food & Environment Reporting Network is the first independent, non-profit news organization that produces in-depth and investigative journalism in the critically under-reported areas of food, ...

The government should replace outdated sugar import rules that guarantee higher revenue to domestic growers and drive up food costs, said the Government Accountability Office on Tuesday. “The program ...

South of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, the valley of the Mississippi River fans out into a broad plain known as the Delta. The name is misleading: The region lies hundreds of miles north of the true river ...

In one of the nation's chicken-producing hubs, immigrant workers say their employers offer Band-Aids, ice, and ibuprofen for injuries that are often life-altering Alex Paul, a Haitian immigrant and ...

A layer of frost clings to the grass on the morning Anthony DeNicola sets out to check his trap. It’s late January in South Carolina. The sun is rising, the fog is lifting, and the frogs are croaking… ...

On a mid-August Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian Schwarz, ...