While eating a plant-based diet is often presented as a White, millennial fad that accompanies gentrification, Black people have a long and rich tradition of plant-based eating.
Sustainable food and farming
Growing greens can be a powerful tool for change.
A Vermont nonprofit is connecting independent farms with buyers and distributors, reducing food surplus and working to eliminate food insecurity.
A grassroots project to build biomass-heated greenhouses aims to alleviate food insecurity in the communities most affected by it.
Changing ownership and wealth distribution, even at a small scale, presents a model for how to ultimately address the climate crisis.
A California farm is making sure wastewater no longer goes to waste.
Transferring wealth to Black-led groups is a particularly potent form of reparations with immediate benefits to communities of color.
Local agriculture initiatives offer a way toward food security through reconnection with the land and the true spirit of aloha.
A community in Colombia is ditching traditional capitalist models in order to build a collective future.
Meet the farmers growing traditional Laotian foods in the hills of North Carolina.
As climate change threatens rainfed farming, millets offer a way to achieve food, financial, and environmental security.
A new film follows food activists seeking to restore salmon, buffalo, and the nourishing legacy of Native cultures.
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