From The Current Issue
In our modern world, conifers and evergreens are used for a spectrum of staples ranging from homesteads to holiday decor, though we rarely stop to recognize the Tree People who provide us these essentials.
Sustainable food and farming
Tribal nations are finding sustainable ways to generate jobs and food security.
Women often suffer the most from environmental degradation. A nonprofit in Colombia is trying to make their needs central to conservation.
Regenerative grazing is booming along the Mid-Atlantic, potentially helping to mitigate cows’ climate impact.
These native breweries are taking back the social and economic power of storytelling.
Philanthrocapitalism enables the destruction of nature and the erosion of democracy.
This spring, focus on reconnecting to foodways as a means to reconnect to your inner self during this season of emergence, renewal, and growth.
Most community gardens don’t last more than 10 years. But the Harambee Garden—at 12 years and running—has lessons to share.
Hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers spent a year relentlessly protesting the Modi government’s push to corporatize Indian agriculture. Their fight offers a model for social movements worldwide.
Jason Tartt saw opportunity in the terraced hillsides of his native West Virginia, both for restoring the land and for other Black farmers.
An alcohol aficionado on how spirits like bourbon fit into our food system.
“When we started our farm-to-hospital concept, we never could have anticipated a global pandemic, but the pandemic provided proof of concept.”
After years of relying on fresh produce from a local urban farm, Baltimore’s Cherry Hill neighborhood is rallying together to save their farm from the city’s eviction notice.
The residential and employment program on a North Carolina organic farm helps formerly incarcerated women find a new path.
T-shirt entrepreneurs-turned-farmers are turning an abandoned elementary school into a community hub.
The first Native-owned and Native-led land trust is working to empower and equip young Natives to successfully farm kelp.
In 1969, experts said the cause of hunger was world overpopulation. Frances Moore Lappé showed they were wrong.
Over 70 different fruits and vegetables are grown in this urban biodiversity oasis, including specialty crops from the community’s diverse cultures.
At Freetown Farm, members of the community can learn the names of medicinal herbs and harvest vegetables, all while developing a deeper relationship to the land and local community.
Raj Patel’s new film follows one Malawian activist’s efforts to bring the immediacy of climate change to the U.S.
Research by Elinor Ostrom and her colleagues show how people cooperate to manage, and sustain, common resources.
Community fridge networks across the country are an important start—and symbol—in the work to make sure everyone has enough to eat.
3 composters who are thinking about the soil as well as better food waste systems.
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.
Growing greens can be a powerful tool for change.
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