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Soil Generation is Saving Community Gardens in Philadelphia
Khenti Pratt’s community garden was an oasis for neighbors, and a source of sustenance and pride. She poured time and money into transforming a blighted Philadelphia lot into a space teeming with...
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A New Crop of Food Justice Fellowships Seed Future Leaders
Since 2013, Mark Winston Griffith has been working to launch a food co-op in central Brooklyn. In a neighborhood where gentrification has squeezed to the margins the community that has been there for...
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300 California Communities Can’t Drink From the Tap. Will More Money Make a...
Maria Olivera has lived in the rural community of Tooleville, in California’s Central Valley, since 1974. During that time, she’s not sure if the water in her home has ever been safe. For decades, she...
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Environmental Defenders—Often Fighting Agribusiness—Are Being Violently...
When armed gold miners in military uniforms last week invaded protected land in Northern Brazil and murdered Emyra Wajãpi, a 68-year-old activist and leader of the Wajãpi indigenous community, it was...
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Preserving Food, Practicing Politics: The Undercover Activism of Black Women...
Dr. Cherisse Jones-Branch didn’t mean to become a rural historian. But the Arkansas State University professor has spent the last seven years researching Black women in rural spaces for her forthcoming...
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How a Black Farming Community Found Justice
Shirley Sherrod co-founded New Communities, a Black farming community in rural Georgia. But there was a time when she wanted to leave farming far behind.As a teenager, Sherrod dreamed of leaving the...
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The Women of Standing Rock Are Building Sovereign Food Economies
For Sicangu Lakota water protector Cheryl Angel, Standing Rock helped her define what she stands against: an economy rooted in extraction of resources and exploitation of people and planet. It wasn’t...
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The Woman Leading the Way for Urban Farming in the Nation’s Capital
With her background in advocacy, welcoming smile, air of refinement, and down-for-doing-business demeanor, it would be easy to assume that when Gail Taylor visits Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.,...
View ArticleWage Theft, Slavery, and Climate Change on the Outlaw Ocean
The ocean is vast and unknown to most of us. And yet, it’s essential.Oceans cover two-thirds of the earth’s surface. They provide more than 50 percent of our oxygen and employ about 65 million people...
View ArticleInstitutional Food Has a Sourcing Problem. This Coalition is Trying to Fix It.
Earlier this week, a coalition of students, farmers, ranchers, fishers, and food workers rallied outside the Philadelphia headquarters of cafeteria operator, Aramark, to demand the corporation invest...
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Baltimore is at the Vanguard of a National Black Vegan Movement
On a recent day in Baltimore’s Cherry Hill suburb, within the enclosure of a tall chain-link fence that guards a grassy meadow surrounded by churches, schools, and apartment complexes, Eric Jackson...
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The Native Musician and Poet Revitalizing Indigenous Food Sovereignty
Lyla June is a musician, public speaker, and internationally recognized performance poet of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne), and Northern European lineages. A young elder with a rare wisdom,...
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Fighting Food Colonialism in the Hopi Nation
For Rosalie Talahongva, a former business analyst and a member of the Hopi tribe, weekends on the reservation are sometimes like battles. Unlike urbanites, who might get to enjoy a relaxed morning, her...
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A New Generation of Black Farmers Is Returning to the Land
“Imagine your neighbor stole your cow. A few weeks later the neighbor comes over, laden with remorse, to offer a sincere apology and a promise to make it right. The neighbor offers to atone by giving...
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400 Years After the Slave Trade Began, Tracing the Roots of Jambalaya to Jollof
Civil Eats partnered with America’s Test Kitchen to develop this story, which today airs an audio version as part of their podcast, Proof from America’s Test Kitchen. Proof goes beyond recipes and...
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Pittsburgh Grows Urban Gardens in the Fight Against Gentrification
“Like most Black people my age, I’ve always been in the midst of gardens,” says 72-year-old Ayanna Jones, between running a group of students to the bus station and harvesting crops at her community...
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Food & Race: 10 Years of Creating a More Just Food System
The food system, like every other aspect of life in America, has been shaped by structural racism and racial injustice. For many years, the most high-profile conversations about food and agriculture...
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Our Best Food Justice Stories of 2019
Food justice is at the heart of our ongoing reporting at Civil Eats, and 2019 was no exception. This year, our writers told dozens of stories about the people most impacted by inequities in the food...
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Black Farmers Are Embracing Climate-Resilient Farming
Chief Zogli looked weary as he scratched a notch in his doorpost to record the weather. “Still no rain,” he says with resignation. The chickens pecked lazily in the dust and the goats foraged for the...
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Women’s Rage Finds Power in Protest—and Baking
This is an excerpt from a new book, Rage Baking: The Transformative Power of Flour, Fury, and Women’s Voices, published this week by Tiller Press. The book, by Kathy Gunst and Katherine Alford,...
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