Cutbacks have defined the pandemic era restaurant—but when owners invest more in their employees, everybody wins. Like many restaurant operators over the past two years, Greg and Daisy Ryan, co-owners ...

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.

Introduced at the height of the pandemic, these ad-hoc sidewalk structures prompted a host of worthy questions about the use of public space.

Impossible Foods’s plant-based ground pork substitute is vegetarian and would likely have been permitted in both Jewish and Muslim dietary traditions. But its newness and marketing as “pork” is giving ...

Pictured above: Members of Universe City, a Brooklyn-based food hub, pack bags of fresh produce for community distribution. GMO proponents tend to focus on “fixing” food via bioengineering, without ...

Small farmers in California's San Joaquin Valley, already suffering from years of drought, have watched hundreds of thousands of acre-feet of water get pumped out of the area.

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, ...

With few accredited training programs, some urban farmers have developed their own methods of learning and farmer-to-farmer networks to explore whether aquaponics can benefit their communities.

Yet in one small corner of the food service and drinking places sector, cafes and coffee shops have recently emerged as a bright spot for unionism. Beginning with Gimme! Coffee in 2017, employees have ...

Buoyed by post-Arab Spring interest, a bumper crop of cookbooks perpetuates tropes of the pitiful and hardworking person displaced by conflict.

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 ...