On a warm weekend in early May, Reverend Heber Brown of Pleasant Hope Baptist Church in Baltimore led a delegation of his members on a tour of Browntown Farms in Warfield, Virginia and the Coalit...
Last summer, young farmer Moses Kashem broke ground on a neglected half-acre of land owned by St. Simon’s Episcopal Church in Miami, Florida. A year later, the lot has been transformed into a d...
https://civileats.com/2018/06/11/the-movement-to-turn-church-land-into-farmland/
A few times a year, Edward Willie tends to the last remaining dogbane patch in Sonoma County. Situated on a three-acre preserve bordering Highway 101 in northern Santa Rosa, the patch is estimate...
https://civileats.com/2018/01/04/fire-ecology-lessons-for-a-more-resilient-future/
Like many who awoke to the smell of smoke in the early hours of October 9th, Agustin Vivienda and his family raced out of their home and tumbled into the family car. As flames streamed into thei...
https://civileats.com/2017/11/27/from-sonoma-countys-ashes-a-fund-for-undocumented-immigrants-rises/
At first glance, the three women hunched over tomato starts in a garden behind St. Stephen’s Church in the Northern California town of Sebastopol don’t look like revolutionaries. They’re no...
https://civileats.com/2017/07/28/seed-saving-is-the-original-sharing-economy/
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https://civileats.com/2017/05/01/a-new-law-would-legalize-selling-home-cooked-food-in-california/
All signs point to the five-year drought being over for parts of California, at least for the time being. A mid-winter week of punishing rains and flooding has left Northern California, in partic...
Food Forward, which began in 2009 with the gleaning of two tangerine trees, now recovers thousands of pounds of produce each week. The post In Los Angeles, a Band of Food Rescuers is Getting Pr...
Eli Zigas didn’t wait for someone to offer him his dream job. He created it. It all started in 2009, when Zigas moved to San Francisco to be an urban farmer. A graduate of Grinnell College in I...
https://civileats.com/2016/09/02/eli-zigass-food-policy-work-is-changing-the-rules-of-the-game/
Strategists are following the money to schools, corporate cafeterias, and hospitals in hopes of rebuilding local economies and bringing healthy food access—literally in through the back door. ...