Resilience Recap: The first map of America’s food supply chain
The first map of America’s food supply chain is mind-boggling
Most of our food is moved across great distances—and through many different forms of transit—before it reaches our plates.
A study showed that nine counties -- mostly in California -- are most central to the overall structure of the food supply network. A disruption to any of these counties may have ripple effects on the food supply chain of the entire country. Keep reading…
Meet the sustainable poultry company taking on Big Ag
Cooks Venture is a pasture-raised heirloom-poultry company that has reimagined what a vertically integrated operation looks like, from the type of chickens it produces to how its feed is grown. It’s the first vertically integrated poultry company in the US built to scale in 50 years and the first that’s doing it with pasture-raised heirloom birds. Keep reading…
Soil Power! The dirty way to a green planet
Scientists are documenting how sequestering carbon in soil can produce a double dividend: It reduces climate change by extracting carbon from the atmosphere, and it restores the health of degraded soil and increases agricultural yields. Keep reading…
London’s urban farms move underground
These farmers hope to solve a major problem of urban food production: space. Keep reading…
Stream our latest episode! Harvests of Hope: California is out.
California has the largest farming economy in the United States, but climate change is threatening to change that. Years of severe drought have left small farmers feeling the squeeze as they walk the tightrope between sustainability and financial viability. Hear from them in their own words as they connect the dots between development, water rights, and food justice.
Harvest of Hope production photo: San Diego, CA