food systems

Building A Market For Invasive Species | Modern Farmer

Across the United States, chefs are seeking out invasive species for restaurant menus, hoping to build up ecological resilience while creating new income streams for vendors, and educating people about the impact of food choices.

Cider Makers Are Betting On Foraged Apples For Climate Resilience | Civil Eats

For years, upstate New York's small-scale cider makers have foraged wild apples. Now they see the benefits of incorporating wild varieties into their orchards.

The Women Trying To Save The Meat Industry | Heated by Medium and Mark Bittman

An educational working ranch shows an example of a system that’s better for employees, animals, and the earth.

The Rise Of Local Flour | Foodprint

You’re a farmers’ market regular. You buy local produce, meat and fish, but what about flour? Whole grains and flour have long been in a hard to reach corner of the local food movement. In some cases, that’s because many local markets, even robust ones, don’t offer local grains. In others, it’s because customers don’t even know to look for local grains.

Public Libraries Are Making It Easy To Check Out Seeds—And Plant A Garden | Civil Eats

Across the country, libraries are giving away seeds to encourage neighbors to plant food, spend more time outside, and build a relationship with nature.

Farmers Embrace The Growing Domestic Spice Trade | Civil Eats

Most spices are imported and have long been overlooked in the local food movement. Now, some U.S. farmers are investing in turmeric, chili, saffron, and more.

A Farm Grows Atop A Convention Center in NYC | Civil Eats

The Javits Center, home to the city’s largest rooftop green space, expanded in September to include a one-acre farm that will supply its kitchen with fresh food at almost zero food miles.

Will The CSA Boom Survive Beyond The Pandemic? | Civil Eats

For farms with new or long-established community supported agriculture programs, demand remains strong—even as grocery shelves are restocked and restaurants re-open.

Farmers’ Markets Face Year Two Of The Pandemic | Foodprint

Before the coronavirus pandemic, farmers’ markets were more than simply a place to pick up a pint of fresh strawberries or the makings for a week full of lunch salads. They were places to gather and converse — the very heart of a community.

Aliza Sokolow’s Food Photos Could Change The Way You Think About Farmers | Civil Eats

The L.A.-based photographer has trained her lens on the growers in your local farmers' market, showcasing the art and beauty of their hard work.

With Wi-Fi And Grow Lights, A Mushroom Farm Grows In City Restaurants | Edible Brooklyn

Off a dead-end industrial street in Bushwick is the soon-to-be home of three 40-foot shipping containers that might just redefine farm-to-table dining.Come spring the shipping containers will be the headquarters of Smallhold Labs, a distributed farming start-up founded by Andrew Carter and Adam DeMartino, that wants to make local food more affordable for restaurants and supermarkets.

Food Has Always Been Medicine For This SoHo Nonprofit | Edible Manhattan

Laying on a bed of seasonal vegetables is a beautiful piece of salmon topped with a perfectly evergreen shade of pesto. It’s the type of sauce that looks so good it’s hard to resist dipping a finger into it and taking a lick. It’s also just one of the ways the chefs at God’s Love We Deliver (GLWD) use herbs growing on a rooftop a few floors above the organization’s SoHo kitchen.

Top photograph: Julie Goldstone for Food Has Always Been Medicine for This SoHo Nonprofit