By Theodore Ross Last week on REAP/SOW, FERN released the second episode of our newest podcast series Forked, which I am co-hosting with Helena Bottemiller Evich, the founder and editor-in-chief ...

To eat in modern America is to participate in not-knowing. We encounter the meal on our plates, yet behind that, much is kept hidden from us: how the animals were treated, how the land was ...

It was easier to fret about the ongoing climate tragedy … than to let my attention lie fallow, occupied only by a hyperawareness of myself, in prison,” writes Michael Fischer. “I read about ...

Kaila Anderson stands in front of some photos in the farmhouse where she grew up, near the tiny town of Sabetha, in the northeast corner of Kansas. Outside, frozen February fields of wheat, hay and ...

The Food & Environment Reporting Network is the first independent, non-profit news organization that produces in-depth and investigative journalism in the critically under-reported areas of food, ...

The Food & Environment Reporting Network is the first independent, non-profit news organization that produces in-depth and investigative journalism in the critically under-reported areas of food, ...

FERN is in a phase of growth and evolution to meet the changing media landscape for food and environmental journalism. We are fortunate to announce that Tanya Haider has agreed to join FERN’s Board of ...

U.S. farmers die by suicide at three and a half times the national rate. Their jobs are difficult, dangerous, and precarious, at the mercy of increasingly volatile weather and the whims of markets and ...

“For much of the past two decades, soda was … suffering a bit of a reputation problem. This is because soda is really not good for you: It generally contains a ton of sugar and no vitamins, and also ...

“Kaila Anderson stands in front of some photos in the farmhouse where she grew up, near the tiny town of Sabetha, in the northeast corner of Kansas. Outside, frozen February fields of wheat, hay and ...