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Dec 17, 2024 | 
civileats.com | Nicole J. Caruth
Jubilee Justice grows rice regeneratively while reclaiming the past. In the heart of Louisiana, about 100 miles north of Baton Rouge, lies the rain-soaked farm that lured Konda Mason away from California in 2020. Reflecting on her journey to the South, the entrepreneur and spiritual teacher has no regrets about relocating from Oakland to the small city of Alexandria to start growing rice. She chuckles while explaining how she got there: in an RV with two loved ones and two dogs.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
civileats.bluelena.io | Lisa Elaine Held |Nicole J. Caruth
Yesterday, we celebrated #GivingTuesday, noting our achievements and accolades this year. If you made a donation, thank you, we are very grateful. Today, we want to call special attention to the power behind Civil Eats: our reporters and contributors. Senior Staff Reporter and Contributing Editor Lisa Held was nominated for and received many awards in 2024.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
civileats.com | Nicole J. Caruth
A version of this article originally appeared in The Deep Dish, our members-only newsletter. Become a member today and get the next issue directly in your inbox. Ashleigh Shanti says she’s “out to prove something” with her debut cookbook, Our South: Black Food Through My Lens, which hit shelves last month. “I want to dispel the myths of what America thinks Black cooking is and is not,” she writes in the opening pages.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
civileats.bluelena.io | Nina Elkadi |Jennifer Oldham |Nicole J. Caruth |Becca Franks
Our independent, investigative journalism about the U.S. food system is supported by members and donors like you. It’s been a tumultuous time, and regardless of who is in the top office, Civil Eats will continue to hold the powerful accountable and shine a light on underrepresented and underreported stories impacting the U.S. food system. Since launching our investigations desk two years ago, we’ve taken on some of the most important food and agriculture stories of our time.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
civileats.com | Nicole J. Caruth
Mental health is an ongoing concern in the agricultural industry, where suicide rates are among the highest for any occupation in the United States. Farmers, in particular, die by suicide at a rate up to three times higher than the national average.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
civileats.bluelena.io | Alexandra Talty |Nicole J. Caruth |Lisa Elaine Held
Read Up On Our In-Depth Series and Investigations Chemical Capture: The Power and Impact of the Pesticide IndustryIn this investigative series, we examine whether consolidated corporate power may be contributing to the ubiquitous use of pesticides, herbicides, and other chemicals, and whether the influence that chemical companies wield in the halls of power makes it difficult to sort facts from marketing or engage in rigorous cost-benefitanalyses.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
civileats.com | Nicole J. Caruth
“Milk is one of the simplest things in nature,” says Jim Stillwagon, an eccentric cheesemaker standing in his cluttered kitchen somewhere in the Pyrenees. “When a child vomits on your shoulder, those are the earliest vestiges of cheese.”Stillwagon’s strange philosophical musings on curd set the tone for Shelf Life, a new documentary about the parallels between cheese aging and human aging.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
civileats.com | Nicole J. Caruth
Gail Pratt is the oldest of seven sisters and the only one who didn’t learn to cook growing up. When a friend told her about a cooking class at The Good Life, an Oakland, California-based nonprofit offering healthy aging activities for older adults, she decided to enroll. For the past four years, 69-year-old Pratt has logged on most Thursday mornings from her kitchen, joining about 50 other women in her age group from all over the San Francisco Bay Area for an hourlong virtual lesson.
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Oct 15, 2023 | 
oaklandnorth.net | Nicole J. Caruth |Hallie Applebaum
Oakland City Council recently approved the city’s first Environment Justice Element to address pollution, health food access and other health risks over the next two decades. But many of the recommendations Oakland residents put forth were ignored, some community leaders say. City Council approved the 222-page Environmental Justice Element last month as part of the city’s 2045 General Plan.
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Sep 20, 2023 | 
oaklandnorth.net | Nicole J. Caruth |Xueer Lu
Mental health might not be the first thing that comes to mind at a comic book convention. But on Sunday, the seventh annual AfroComicCon at Oakland City Hall featured a lively panel of artists and therapists discussing safe mental health spaces.
