The US Farmers Saving Palestinian Seeds

Civil Eats 2/2 9:00P Jennifer Cole

Article Summary • Conflict has long threatened the survival of traditional Palestinian crops, and Israeli attacks since 2023 have destroyed nearly all the farmland in Gaza. • The West Bank-based...

Fighting Hunger in Fayetteville, Arkansas

Civil Eats 2/1 9:00P Elena Valeriote

Article Summary • Arkansas has had the highest food insecurity rate in the nation for three years in a row, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). • In the town of...

Living and Eating in Kinship With the Land

Civil Eats 1/27 9:00P The Civil Eats Editors

At Civil Eats, Indigenous foodways has long been a core area of our coverage. For more than a decade, we’ve reported on foraging and subsistence hunting , food sovereignty , the landback movement ,...

How Artisan Grains Helped Skagit County Rebuild Its Economy

Civil Eats 1/25 9:00P Jason Dove Mark

Article Summary • The Skagit Valley is the center of a thriving regional grain economy, fueled by local wheat production, a mill, the research center Breadlab, and bakeries. • A key driver behind the...

Updated Federal Data Shows States With Little to No USDA Staff

Civil Eats 1/20 9:00P Rebekah Alvey

Recently updated federal data shows the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has 21 percent fewer employees since the start of the Trump administration, leaving some state offices entirely unstaffed. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM)...

Op-ed: The New Food Pyramid Is a Climate Disaster

Civil Eats 1/12 9:00P Leah Kelly

The 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans were just released, along with a new food pyramid that heavily promotes meat and dairy—and reflects the authors’ ties to industrial animal agriculture. While the new guidelines emphasize fruits and...

A Florida Oyster Fishery and Its Community Fight for Their Future

Civil Eats 1/5 9:00P Ben Seal

This story was co-published and supported by the journalism nonprofit Economic Hardship Reporting Project . On a late afternoon in early November, Xochitl Bervera launches The Roxie Girl from St....

The End of SNAP-Ed Leaves Underserved Communities With Even Fewer Resources

Civil Eats 1/4 9:00P Laura Reiley

Phyllis Pacheco, 72, lives about 6 miles from the New Mexico border in an unincorporated community called Lobatos, so small that its mailing address is nearby Antonito, Colorado. She’s lived there most of her life, and still works as a certified...

Our Biggest Climate Stories of 2025

Civil Eats 12/29 9:01P The Civil Eats Editors

This year, as climate change continued to impact and alter the food system, the Trump administration dismantled many of the climate projects and protections that were put in place to help tackle the...

Our Biggest Farming Stories of 2025

Civil Eats 12/28 9:01P The Civil Eats Editors

When we started Civil Eats, we sought to report on farming from a different perspective, focusing on underrepresented voices and issues. This year, most American farmers faced significant challenges,...

Our Biggest Food Justice Stories of 2025

Civil Eats 12/22 9:01P The Civil Eats Editors

Civil Eats has reported on food justice since we began publishing in 2009. At the time, many people were unaware of the critical connection between race, food, poverty, and equity. As a central tenet...

Exclusive: Senator Schiff Introduces Bill to Support ‘Alternative Protein’ Development

Civil Eats 12/17 2:00A Lisa Held

December 17, 2025 – Senator Adam Schiff (D-California) will introduce legislation today to direct more than $500 million in federal support over the next five years toward research and development for “alternative proteins.” The Producing Real...

US Dietary Guideline Reforms Are Coming, and Health Experts Are Concerned

Civil Eats 12/16 9:01P Rebekah Alvey

Article Summary • Members of the Trump administration and the Make America Healthy Again movement have repeatedly criticized the process, and the advisory committee, behind the Dietary Guidelines for...

Chaos, Collaboration, and Courage: A Look Back at 2025

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition 12/16 7:13A Laura Zaks

NSAC Winter Meeting 2025, Washington, DC A Year Like No Other As 2025 comes to a close, we find ourselves reflecting on a year that reshaped the food and farm policy landscape: from major disruptions...

USDA Staffing Crisis: Rural Development Staff Cuts Leave Rural Communities Behind

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition 12/12 5:07A Rebecca Schewe

Photo credit: Zoe Richardson via Unpslash This post examines the devastating loss of experienced staff within US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development and the consequences for the...