Hunger relief organizations benefit from surplus donations due to California Senate Bill 1383, which has reshaped the state’s approach to food waste.

In Santa Cruz, the gardening collective Bitter Cotyledons is growing more than just plants — it’s cultivating community, culture, and belonging.

Four Bay Area churches are combining resilience hubs with charging infrastructure in an effort to bring investment to long-overlooked communities and increase their own financial stability.

With a focus on trauma recovery and improved health, a new farm model connects neighbors to ancestral practices.

LGBTQ+ farmers are at high risk for depression and anxiety, and farmers who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color face additional stress. Here’s how two determined farmers in Texas care for their community.

In agricultural communities, strength training and stretches are helping both physical and mental well-being.

Jubilee Justice grows rice regeneratively while reclaiming the past.

The new cookbook from ‘Top Chef’ alum Ashleigh Shanti features recipes from five micro-regions of the American South.

Clinical psychologist Michael Rosmann drew on 50 years of counseling farmers to write ‘Meditations on Farming.’

Robyn Metcalfe, the producer of a new, award-winning documentary, explores economics, biology, and mortality in an attempt to understand why people are so devoted to making cheese.

New cooking classes for older people of color could delay the onset of diet-related diseases—and provide a host of other benefits, too.

The Carleton College Voice commissioned four alumni artists to reinvent the get-out-the-vote poster in light of the November 2024 U.S. election.

Cementerio del Barrio de los Lipanes is a sacred site to the Lipan Apache Tribe located in Presidio, Texas.

Edited by Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago, this anthology looks at the Black maternal body.

Artists Seitu Jones and Ta‑coumba T. Aiken and poet Soyini Guyton cast the silhouettes of everyday Minnesotans into bronze and concrete at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.

In his solo exhibition at Law Warshaw Gallery, artist Jordan Weber explores the links between race, environment, and well-being.

Artist Heather Hart’s The Oracle of Epicure: Tooth for Tooth uses a recipe-exchange installation to honor and surface her family’s culinary legacy at Williams College, drawing directly from her great-grandfather Harry H. Hart’s 1951 cookbook.

Food-based artworks have audiences hungering for more.

In 2004, Bay Area conceptual artist April Banks traveled to West Africa, which produces seventy percent of the world's cocoa, to learn firsthand about the cocoa farms of the region and their relationship to the modern-day chocolate industry.

The internationally acclaimed artist Wangechi Mutu reflects on failure in her studio practice.