The Covid relief loans were designed to keep workers employed, but fast-food franchises allocated money to their landlord, the McDonald’s corporate office. In partnership with The Intercept. At the ...

Although their work centers on raw, natural materials, the textile and fiber artists say they never intended to become agricultural producers—the sustainability of their craft demanded it.

Solanum jamesii, aka the Four Corners potato, has sustained Indigenous people in the American Southwest for 11,000 years; USDA is now studying its 8-year shelf life, and its resistance to disease, ...

The largest organic food fraud case in U.S. history concluded in August 2019, when Randy Constant, accused of passing off at least $142 million in conventionally grown grain as organic, was sentenced ...

North Carolina has 100 counties, and until this week, Graham County was the only one that didn’t allow beer and wine sales (other than at a few resorts). But on Tuesday, voters in the county seat of ...

In fact, in 2016, I landed a book deal on the topic, promising to explore why small family farms were at risk and what could be done to protect them. Having grown up on a small family farm myself, I ...

The pandemic has changed what we mean by “restaurant” to include market hybrids, more take-out, less brick-and-mortar—and more restaurants that want to upend the hierarchy that defines dining out.

On July 31, the school gardening nonprofit Big Green held its glitzy annual gala in Aspen, Colorado. The singer Jewel performed; actor Adrian Grenier made an appearance. It’s a company tradition to ...

But improving healthy and affordable food access goes beyond what’s in the name. For several decades, the term “food desert” has been dropped into media reports about underserved neighborhoods and ...

These foods are all part of a largely invisible supply chain that routes food from state prisons to government institutions and nonprofits. Elsewhere, food companies partner with correctional ...

Memphis Meats has rebranded as Upside Foods, and the company now predicts its lab-grown chicken will be ready for consumers in 2021. The U.S. government suggests otherwise. Just months after Singapore ...

It's generally illegal to sell prison-made goods across state lines. But since the 1930s, the law has included an exemption for agriculture.