Grange halls, like the one in the Anderson Valley in California’s Mendocino County, have been around for more than 150 years. The Grange began as a fraternal organization for ...

Grange halls, like the one in the Anderson Valley in California’s Mendocino County, have been around for more than 150 years. The Grange began as a fraternal organization for farmers, reaching its ...

By Theodore Ross The James Beard Media Awards are one of the most prestigious honors out there for folks like us at FERN, who make journalism about food and the environment. That’s why it is such ...

On a mid-August Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian Schwarz, ...

In one of the nation's chicken-producing hubs, immigrant workers say their employers offer Band-Aids, ice, and ibuprofen for injuries that are often life-altering Alex Paul, a Haitian immigrant and ...

The novel coronavirus crisis has made it impossible to ignore the fundamental weaknesses of our system of food production and distribution — from a reliance on farm and restaurant workers who are ...

It’s one in the morning and the stars are out as hundreds of people shuffle slowly along the wall that marks the U.S. border in the small Mexican city of San Luis Río Colorado. In heavy boots and wide ...

Kaila Anderson stands in front of some photos in the farmhouse where she grew up, near the tiny town of Sabetha, in the northeast corner of Kansas. Outside, frozen February fields of wheat, hay and ...

Lawrence Brorman eases his pickup through plowed farmland in Deaf Smith County, an impossibly flat stretch of the Texas Panhandle where cattle outnumber people 40 to 1. The 67-year-old farmer and ...

The history of the current dispute between Mexico and the U.S. over genetically modified corn has roots much deeper than the presidential decree that set it off. Opposition to GMO crops in Mexico has ...