Best exercise equipment for beginners 2025: Everything you need to start your fitness journey

Live Science 5/28 12:30A Anna Gora

Starting out on your fitness journey is daunting enough, let alone buying your first-ever fitness kit. It can be scary to pick up that dumbbell for the first time, or to jump on that first cardio machine. With over a decade of fitness coaching...

Helping Ramps Flourish Through Forest Farming

Civil Eats 5/27 10:00P Ben Seal

Near the banks of the Delaware River in northeast Pennsylvania, Steven Schwartz, his silver hair tied back beneath his hat, is searching for a seed. It’s ramp season, and finding one of the tiny black...

Warming Waters Cause Invasion of Sea Squirts at Maine Fisheries

Civil Eats 5/26 10:00P Kirsten Lie-Nielsen

In the summer of 2020, Alicia Gaiero began to realize that sea squirts were putting the success of her new oyster farm in jeopardy. She and her two sisters, Amy and Chelsea, were working together to...

Cucumbers recalled after multistate Salmonella outbreak leaves dozens sick

Live Science 5/22 8:35A Pandora Dewan

U.S. health officials are investigating a multistate outbreak of Salmonella in contaminated cucumbers after nine people were hospitalized, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) . As of May 20, 26 cases had been...

Civil Eats Included in ‘The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025’

Civil Eats 5/20 10:00P Margo True

We’re very pleased to announce that stories by two of our writers, Kate Nelson and Christina Cooke, have been included in The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025 .  Just 20 pieces were chosen, and it’s a great honor to be among them. The...

Sean Sherman Expands His Vision for Decolonizing the US Food System

Civil Eats 5/19 10:00P Kate Nelson

Sean Sherman walks through an expansive commissary kitchen in South Minneapolis, his eyes lighting up with excitement. He isn’t taking in the kitchen as it is—dormant but well-equipped with an...

Healing Land and Legacy Through Urban Agriculture

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition 5/15 2:46A Hannah Quigley

Sanctuary Farms | Photo Credit: Ali Lapetina Ask someone to imagine a “farm” and they will probably conjure a barn, a silo, rolling hills of crops, and pasture. That is, they will imagine rural areas....

What Deep Cuts to NOAA Mean for U.S. Fisheries

Civil Eats 5/14 10:00P Meg Wilcox

On a cold, bright April day, Sarah Schumann and Dean Pesante are painting the bottom of their fishing boat, the 38-foot Oceana, to prevent barnacles and weeds from attaching. They’re almost ready for...

Release: Budget Bill Steamrolls Farm Bill Future, Slashing Billions

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition 5/13 6:00A Laura Zaks

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Laura Zaks National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition press@sustainableagriculture.net Tel. 347.563.6408 Release: Budget Bill Steamrolls Farm Bill Future, Slashing Billions Washington, DC, May 13, 2025 – Yesterday...

Could This Arizona Ranch Be a Model for Southwest Farmers?

Civil Eats 5/11 10:00P Samuel Gilbert

A version of this article originally appeared in The Deep Dish, our members-only newsletter.  Become a member today  and get the next issue directly in your inbox. One mid-morning in May, the...

Images capturing a starving lion, fighting bison and pit of vipers honored in environmental...

Live Science 5/11 2:00A

Jaw-dropping images capturing the natural world, including an aging captive lion as well as an elephant wading through plastic, have been revealed as the winners and runners-up of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation's 2025 Environmental...

Farmers Need Climate Research to Thrive

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition 5/9 5:57A Nick Rossi

Photo credit: USDA, by Neil Palmer. Since its establishment in the 2008 Farm Bill, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has advanced research that helps American farmers and ranchers...

Trump Nominates Food-Focused Health Entrepreneur Casey Means for Surgeon General

Civil Eats 5/8 6:58A Lisa Held

May 8, 2025 – Yesterday, President Trump nominated Casey Means as the country’s top doctor. Means, a health entrepreneur who advocates for changing food choices and farm practices,  and her brother Calley Means have been fixtures of Health and...

Op-ed: Why Most No-Till Agriculture Is Not Actually Regenerative

Civil Eats 5/7 10:00P Nate Powell-Palm

I sat down to write this piece after a five-inch April snowstorm gave our newly planted wheat fields their first drink of the season. Wheat is one of five crops we raise on our farm just outside...

The Pork Industry Asks Congress to Overturn Prop. 12, a Divisive Animal Welfare Law, Yet Again

Civil Eats 5/5 10:00P Lisa Held

In May 2023, nearly eight months after hearing a case brought by the National Pork Producers Council (NPCC), the Supreme Court upheld a California law that banned the sale of pork from systems that...