Climate Food and Agriculture

Queer as farm folk: Can the LGBT community save sustainable farming?

The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community has a history of organizing collectively and revitalizing urban spaces. Can they do the same for small-scale farming?

God's country: Farming for spiritual reasons [VIDEO]

Perennial Plate follows a family in central Ohio that farms for spiritual reasons.

Food justice — for Navina Khanna, it's what's for dinner

Meet the first member of the Change Gang, a group of people leading change on the ground toward a more sustainable society and greener planet.

Food Studies: Canvolution!

Canning is hip again, a century after it first caught on -- but for very different reasons.

The unmasking of a school lunch hero: Mrs. Q speaks

Now that her book, Fed Up with Lunch, is out, the teacher who blogged her way through a year of eating school lunch finally comes clean.

Peebottle Farms: Have eggs, will barter

What's a girl with a constant stream of backyard eggs to do -- aside from conditioning her hair with the yolks? Why barter, of course.

No girls allowed: Dr. Pepper's latest is dudes-only

Dr. Pepper is marketing its new diet soda strictly to men. You can have this one, dudes.

Chow-to: Stop worrying and love your kitchen timer

Getting used to cooking while doing other things does more than save you time. It changes your eating habits, making it easier to go green in the kitchen.

Climate change could cause a chocolate shortage

Chocolate lovers have two decades to consume all the Godiva they can before climate change drinks their milkshake. After that, global warming will cause production to dwindle in current cocoa-producing regions, like Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, according to a new study by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture.

That doesn't necessarily mean that humanity will lose chocolate, though. It just might have to come from somewhere else.

Genius shopping cart gizmo helps you eat local

This shopping cart attachment lets you compare the food miles on your purchases in a way that's quick, easy to interpret, and less complicated than the self-checkout. That is cool as hell! Also, this demonstration video, which was made for a conference, is a complete hoot. (I am a sucker for a British accent, though.)