food
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Surviving winter eating local: Grist readers’ advice
We asked our locavore readers to tell us how they make it through the dark days of winter. If the answers we got are any indication, they're doing just fine!
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Publix humiliation: Workers, students fasting for fair food
A group of students, activists, and farmworkers prepare for a week-long fast targeted at Publix Supermarkets Inc., Florida’s largest private corporation.
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Beetlemania: Invasive insect could become our billion-dollar problem
If the Khapra beetle spreads from our ports to our crops, it will eat all our food. Visit the front lines in Oakland, Calif., where customs agents struggle to keep the buggers at bay.
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Getting homemade foods off the black market
With a proposed "cottage food law," California joins a handful of states that have already made it legal to sell artisan foods made in people's homes.
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Into the woods: Seattle plants a public food forest
Urban orchards are growing in popularity all over the country, but Seattle is taking it further with this public fruit experiment.
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Photo project takes commuters to a California they’ve forgotten
With her new documentary project, author and photographer Lisa Hamilton hopes to reacquaint urban train riders with rural life.
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Finally, a smoking gun connecting livestock antibiotics and superbugs
New science draws a straight line between antibiotic-resistant staph and the overuse of antibiotics on factory farms. Now, if only our lawmakers would do something with the information.
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Lexicon of Sustainability: Fallen fruit
Yes, foraging is hip, but -- according to the latest installment of the Lexicon -- it's also very practical.
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GMO-labeling game plan: California or bust!
GMO labeling advocates have tried a variety of tactics this year; get the rundown on what hasn't worked so far and what just might.