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Consumption

On the Ground With Apps Preventing Food Waste

A more productive scroll? Food waste apps aim to deliver food where it’s needed, and divert waste from landfills with ease

by Jennifer Cole· August 5, 2024
Consumption

On The Ground With Groups Creating Wildlife Corridors

Prioritizing connections for traveling animals could slow down the extinction crisis.

by Kathleen Willcox· July 31, 2024
Food

On the Ground With the Volunteers Running Community Fridges

Community fridges are each unique, dependent on the people who run them and the people they serve. Here are how just a few groups around the US run their fridges.

by Kathleen Wilcox· July 22, 2024
Farm

Young Farmers Dig Into Land

These new farmers get by with a little help from their friends.

by Claire Duncombe· June 27, 2024
Food

On the Ground With the Farms Feeding Hospitals and Their Patients

Food can be medicine. That’s why some hospitals are teaming up with farms—or starting their own—to make fresh food part of patient care.

by Jennifer Cole· June 20, 2024
Person takes water sample.
Consumption

On the Ground with Initiatives Responding to PFAS

Researchers and advocates around the world are looking for ways to help address the PFAS problem. Here is a quick look at some of these projects in their various stages of development.

by Daniel Walton· June 18, 2024
Farm

On the Ground With Toolmakers Helping Small Farmers Keep it Local

Local farmers need locally-made tools. Here are just a few of the tool providers making it happen.

by Melissa Julia· May 13, 2024
Farm

On the Ground With Growers Working to Localize Seed Production

The local food movement often has its roots in seeds grown far afield, but more farmers want to bring those foundational pieces of agriculture back home.

by Daniel Walton· April 29, 2024
Food

On the Ground with the Farmers Producing Antibiotic-Free Meat

As the sales of antibiotics for use in livestock increase, these farmers say they have a better way. 

by Marin Scotten· April 24, 2024
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