Food Justice

Hector Lopez and Phoebe Gooding at the center of their 1.3-acre urban permaculture farm, Hawk’s Nest Healing Gardens, in Durham, NC. (Photo credit: Nicole J. Caruth)

Farmers of Color Offer Community Wellness at ‘Healing Farms’

By Nicole J. Caruth

September 3, 2025

With a focus on trauma recovery and improved health, a new farm model connects neighbors to ancestral practices.

Op-ed: Public Grocery Stores Already Exist and Work Well. We Need More.

By Raj Patel and Errol Schweizer

August 20, 2025

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 17: A person shops at a Whole Foods Market grocery store on December 17, 2024 in New York City. Grocery prices have recently seen their most significant monthly gain since January of 2023 with egg prices rising 8.2% alone. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Refugee Farm Programs Harmed by Federal Cuts

By Caleb Hampton

August 18, 2025

Ram Khatiwoda, farm coordinator at the International Rescue Committee's New Roots farm in West Sacramento, tends to a row of onions this year at the farm. (Photo credit: Caleb Hampton)

Civil Eats Welcomes Rebekah Alvey as Staff Reporter

By The Civil Eats Editors

August 11, 2025

Rebekah Alvey mug

Op-ed: We Need a Food Bill of Rights

By Tambra Raye Stevenson

July 30, 2025

Photo illustration of the U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights laying on top of an image displaying bundles of root vegetables.

A Groundbreaking California Farming Collective Navigates the Loss of Federal Grants

By Riley Ramirez

July 29, 2025

Volunteers Noelle Romero (left) and Corinne Smith (right) pull weeds around a row of baby tomato plants and talk about their own gardening ventures during a community work day at the Agroecology Commons farm. (Photo credit: Riley Ramirez)

The EPA Canceled These 21 Climate Justice Projects

By Riley Ramirez

July 23, 2025

COACHELLA, CALIFORNIA - JULY 03: Sprinklers water an agricultural field on July 3, 2024 near Coachella, California. A long-duration heat wave is impacting much of California with authorities warning of extreme health and wildfire risks. An excessive heat warning is in effect for all of the Coachella Valley through July 8th with highs forecast of up to 121 degrees. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Op-ed: Through Acts of Solidarity, We Can Support Immigrants in the Food Chain and Beyond

By Alba Velasquez

July 22, 2025

Immigrant farmers, food workers, and vendors are a critical part of our food system. Here’s how to help them here in LA and nationwide (Photo credit: LA Food Policy Council).

US Importers Sued for ‘Greenwashing’ Mexican Avocados

By Isabella Kaminski

July 9, 2025

A man carries a sack of Avocados at the avocado market

Amid SNAP Debate, Are Lawmakers Ending Waste and Abuse—or Dismantling a Safety Net?

July 1, 2025

A warehouse staff moves through rows of food at the Capital Area Food Bank. (Photo: Capital Area Food Bank)

Can This Baltimore Academy Continue to Train Urban Farmers?

June 30, 2025

Denzel Mitchell at Black Butterfly Teaching Farm. (Photo credit: Sam Delgado)

In New Orleans, ‘Solitary Gardens’ Aims to Transform Thinking About Prisons

June 18, 2025

Established last October, the final Solitary Garden is on St. Charles Avenue, a popular tourist destination in New Orleans. (Photo credit: Ben Seal)

This Man Is Feeding California’s Incarcerated Firefighters

By Nadra Nittle

June 10, 2025

A line of firefighters battle a blaze. Photo courtesy of ARC.

Farmworker Youth Take to the Streets as Deportations and Displacement Threaten Their Parents

June 3, 2025

At a protest against immigration detentions in Santa Maria, CA, a young woman holds a sign honoring the work of her farmworker parents. (Photo credit: David Bacom)

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

May 21, 2025

an image on the left with the

This Queer Couple Supports LGBTQ+ and BIPOC Farmers’ Mental Health

By Nicole J. Caruth

May 14, 2025

A Black woman farmer wearing an orange tank top and khaki pants walks through a field of farmland with brown cows in the background

Protests Mount Against ICE Detentions of Immigrant Farmworkers

By Brian Calvert

May 9, 2025

A farmworker protest to free union organizers from ICE detention. (Photo courtesy of Migrant Justice)

10 Ways to Get Involved With Food Mutual Aid

By Robin Greenfield

April 7, 2025

A colorfully hand drawn image of diverse people working in food mutual aid, from a bbq'er to someone holding a bowl of rice, and more

From a Farmer and His Son, a Practical and Joyful Guide to Beekeeping

By Christina Cooke

March 26, 2025

On the left side of a collage is the book cover of Akeem Keeps Bees, with an African American boy holding up a bee frame while his dad and him look at bees wearing bee suits. On the right is an image of the son and dad on the farm

‘Dignified Food’ Eases Food Insecurity in Philadelphia

March 25, 2025

rows of to-go boxes of freshly made food, with chefs and cooks in the background

This San Francisco Food Pantry Is a Labor of Love

By Tilde Herrera

March 24, 2025

A woman wearing a Giant's baseball hat and hoodie holds her white pomeranian in a bag, next to a chalkboard sign that says

Building Stronger Communities Through Food Mutual Aid

By The Civil Eats Editors

March 20, 2025

Civil Eats Editorial Director Margo True, Feed Durham founder Katina Parker, and Yasmin Ruiz, food justice co-organizer at Chicago’s Little Village Environmental Justice Organization.

In Chicago, an Environmental Organization Feeds a Community

By Angela Burke

March 12, 2025

a vibrant community garden with tall sunflowers and workers

‘If You Speak an Indigenous Language, You Are Treated as Less’: Migrant Indigenous Farmworkers Feel Deportation Threat

By Maye Primera

March 4, 2025

An Indigenous Mixtec man sits on a public green bench in a park, dressed in a white shirt with blue emboidery

Indigenous Food Reciprocity as a Model for Mutual Aid

March 3, 2025

Traditional forager Twila Cassadore of the San Carlos Apache Nation gathers wild amaranth seeds with her niece, as seen in the documentary Gather. (Photo credit: Renan Ozturk)