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Food-Spotlight On

Spotlight On the Community Fridge and Pantry Growing Its Own Produce

Second Harvest Food Bank is providing freshly harvested produce to food-insecure residents of Orange County.

by Daliah Singer· July 19, 2024
Food-How to

Community Fridges 101

How to find a fridge, how to start a fridge and what they actually need. Here’s everything you need to know when it comes to community fridges.

by Emily Baron Cadloff· July 18, 2024
Food-Article

From Community, For Community: The Rise of the Free Fridge

Community fridges have been around for more than a decade, but they rose in popularity over the COVID pandemic. Why has this form of mutual aid become so popular?

by Emily Baron Cadloff· July 18, 2024
Food-Republication

Urban Farms are a Lifeline for Food-Insecure Residents. Will New Jersey Finally Make Them Permanent?

Urban farms in Essex County, New Jersey are calling on municipal and state governments for long-term investment to combat food insecurity.

by Kimberly Izar & Simon Galperin, The Jersey Bee· July 16, 2024
Consumption-Republication

Inside Florida’s Ban on Lab-Grown Meat

The recent move to criminalize cultivated protein has more to do with politics than science.

by Marlowe Starling, Sentient Media· July 12, 2024
Farm-Article

The World is Farming More Seafood Than it Catches. Is That a Good Thing?

Both aquaculture and fisheries have environmental and climate impacts — and they overlap more than you'd think.

by Frida Garza, Grist· June 21, 2024
Food-On The Ground

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
Consumption-MTMF

Meet the Pecan Farmer Who Wants to Change the Plant-Based Milk Scene

Pecans, although not as widely grown as other nuts, make a delicious milk alternative. One farmer wants the world to try them.

by Laurel Miller· June 10, 2024
Consumption-Article

$9 Butter? Canadian Redditors Say No Thank You

Subscribers to a Reddit thread organized a national boycott of grocery mega-chain Loblaws that grew into a community movement to promote farmer’s markets and local food.

by Emily Baron Cadloff· May 16, 2024
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