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WEBCivil Eats TV. Of the three female craft sake brewers in the U.S., two make up the mother-daughter team at Sequoia Sake in San Francisco. Working with California rice farmers, they’re bringing the nearly 2,000-year-old national drink of Japan to more Americans. Civil Eats is a news source for critical thought about the American food system.
‘Slow Cooked’: How Food Policy Expert Marion Nestle Persisted
WEBSep 21, 2022 · For nearly half a century, Marion Nestle has been teaching and writing about the politics of what we eat. The author of 14 books, her latest, Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics, is a memoir—and a decidedly personal story of becoming the individual experts have called “one of the nation’s smartest and most influential …
Only Two States Have Passed ‘Right to Garden’ Laws. Will Others …
WEBAug 20, 2022 · From Michigan to Massachusetts, people have been thwarted—or even outright banned—from growing food on their own property. But thanks to the concerted efforts of people like Virgil and their legal allies, “right to garden” laws are slowly gaining traction. Such legislation remains scarce at the state level, however—only Illinois and ...
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WEBCivil Eats’ board of directors is made up of highly regarded individuals focused strategically on media, philanthropy, investment, and food issues. Emilio Garcia-Ruiz Emilio Garcia-Ruiz is the editor-in-chief of the San Francisco Chronicle. Until recently, he was the managing editor of the Washington Post, where he oversaw the newsroom’s development, …
Meg Wilcox - Civil Eats
WEBMeg Wilcox is a freelance writer based in Boston focused on solutions-oriented stories about the ways people are fighting climate change, protecting the environment and making our agriculture systems more sustainable, including by addressing poverty.
Food + Policy | Civil Eats
WEB17 Food and Ag Approaches to Tackling the Climate Crisis. By The Civil Eats Editors. August 5, 2024.
Returning Stolen Land to Native Tribes, One Lot at a Time
WEBFeb 8, 2018 · But she and Gould are doing more than dreaming. As the co-founders of Indian People Organizing for Change, they joined organizer Norman “Wounded Knee” DeOcampo, another organizer for indigenous tribes, to protect a sacred burial site in Vallejo just northeast of Oakland in 2011. They occupied the land there for more than three …
Farming - Civil Eats
WEBThe Pawpaw, a Beloved Native Fruit, Could Seed a More Sustainable Future for Small Farms. By Ben Seal. As festivals celebrate the pawpaw for its tropical flavor and custardy texture, researchers explore its potential as a low-input, high-value crop that’s easy to grow organically. By Jake Price. By The Civil Eats Editors.
Project 2025 Spells Out Big Changes to US Agriculture - Civil Eats
WEBJul 22, 2024 · Project 2025 proposes eliminating CRP. The Republican Study Committee proposes ending enrollments in the program, as well. As of March 2024, the most recent month for which data is available, more than 301,000 farms had close to 25 million acres enrolled in CRP; that’s a lot of acreage, but it represents less than 3 percent of U.S. …
David Cook - Civil Eats
WEBApr 10, 2024 · David Cook is the former city columnist with the Chattanooga Times Free Press.A winner of the ASNE Mike Royko Award for Commentary and numerous other national awards, he is the co-founder (along with Sarah Unger) of Food as a Verb, a new media covering local food, farms and restaurants in the Appalachians near Chattanooga, …