As food banks struggle to meet demand, ‘wasted’ food is filling the gap — for now
Hunger relief organizations benefit from surplus donations due to California Senate Bill 1383, which has reshaped the state’s approach to food waste.
A Santa Cruz Gardening Collective Cultivates Belonging for Queer and Trans Asian Americans
In Santa Cruz, the gardening collective Bitter Cotyledons is growing more than just plants — it’s cultivating community, culture, and belonging.
A California Network of Black Churches Is Embracing Solar Energy, EV Charging
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.
Farmers of Color Offer Community Wellness at ‘Healing Farms’
With a focus on trauma recovery and improved health, a new farm model connects neighbors to ancestral practices.
This Queer Couple Supports LGBTQ+ and BIPOC Farmers’ Mental Health
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.
For Farmers, Fitness Programs Can Improve Mental Health, Too
In agricultural communities, strength training and stretches are helping both physical and mental well-being.
Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation
Jubilee Justice grows rice regeneratively while reclaiming the past.
A Debut Southern Cookbook Challenges Simplified Notions of Black Cuisine
The new cookbook from ‘Top Chef’ alum Ashleigh Shanti features recipes from five micro-regions of the American South.
For Farmers and Ranchers Grappling With Mental Health, This Fourth-Generation Farmer Offers Help That Works
Clinical psychologist Michael Rosmann drew on 50 years of counseling farmers to write ‘Meditations on Farming.’
‘Shelf Life’ Peeks Into the Nooks and Crannies of the Cheesemaker’s World
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.
Can Cooking in Community Slow Dementia and Diabetes?
New cooking classes for older people of color could delay the onset of diet-related diseases—and provide a host of other benefits, too.
Get-Out-the-Vote: Printable Posters by Alumni Artists
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
Cementerio del Barrio de los Lipanes is a sacred site to the Lipan Apache Tribe located in Presidio, Texas.
Black Birth Matters
Edited by Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago, this book questions how the Black female body, specifically the Black maternal body, navigates interlocking structures that impose a false narrative on her and her maternal ancestors.
In the Shadows of Our Ancestors
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.
Jordan Weber: Meditations on Safety
In his solo exhibition at Law Warshaw Gallery, artist Jordan Weber explores the links between race, environment, and well-being.
Tooth for Tooth
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.
Curiously Chocolate: April Banks
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.
Wangechi Mutu on failure
The internationally acclaimed artist Wangechi Mutu reflects on failure in her studio practice.