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New Rankings Score Chocolate Companies on Environmental and Labor Issues

What goes into your favorite chocolate bar? Sugar, cocoa, caramel…and potentially, a host of environmental... (more)

Emily Baron Cadloff
April 3, 2023
Meta Ad Ban Hurts Hemp Entrepreneurs

Sara Day Evans runs an agriculture-based business accelerator, Accelerating Appalachia, which supports dozens of farmers... (more)

Judith Matloff
March 9, 2023
Why Don’t American Farmers Embrace Peasant Farming?

Last June, I quit my office job and booked a flight to France. I was... (more)

Nicole Grennan
February 21, 2023
How to Turn Your Garden Into a Business, No Matter the Size

Stop me if this sounds familiar: You love your backyard garden, but because of the... (more)

Emily Baron Cadloff
January 24, 2023
Meet the Farmer Helping Black Kentuckians Return to Their Agricultural Roots

“Produce with a purpose” is how Ashley Smith describes her vision for Black Soil, the... (more)

Kelly Magyarics
January 12, 2023
Move Over, Mezcal. A Sustainable Tequila Alternative Is Taking Over.

In the Chihuahuan desert, a plant that grows wild, without a drop of water, could change... (more)

Hollie Stephens
January 9, 2023
This Earn-While-You-Learn Model is Transforming a Colorado Food Desert

Denver’s Globeville and Elyria-Swansea neighborhoods have been designated food deserts, barren of grocery stores and... (more)

Carrie Honaker
December 30, 2022
In U.S. Prisons, Seeds Are Prized Contraband for Prisoners Looking to Grow...

Within the conversations around food insecurity in the United States, there is one group often... (more)

C. Dreams
December 19, 2022
From Backyards to Roadsides, How One Group is Protecting the Endangered Juçara...

More than 150 species of botanical marvels grow at the Eden Garden flower shop in... (more)

Mari Cleven
December 13, 2022