Nathan Hill pushes his skiff off from the shore as the Alaskan dawn breaks through a dense bank of clouds. It’s high tide at ...

Ben Seal is a freelance journalist based in South Philadelphia who writes about the intersection of food and agriculture, the ...

Wendell Berry, who died August 31, 2026, at the age of 92, was a contributor and adviser to Orion from its inception in 1982.

Europe’s record heatwaves and droughts are slashing harvests, driving up food prices and exposing vulnerabilities in the ...

If you’ve gone walking in the woods out West lately, you might have encountered a pile of sticks. Or perhaps hundreds of them, heaped as high as your head and strewn about the forest like Viking ...

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, ...

A layer of frost clings to the grass on the morning Anthony DeNicola sets out to check his trap. It’s late January in South Carolina. The sun is rising, the fog is lifting, and the frogs are croaking ...

It’s just past noon on a Wednesday, but the bar at the Ski Inn in Bombay Beach, California, is already packed. The crowd is mostly Canadian, snowbirds escaping to the desert spas and country club ...

Chris Jones, the 65-year-old Democratic nominee for Iowa secretary of agriculture, stands at the edge of a pond on a 72-acre farm in eastern Iowa. “What you see here is how fertile Iowa is,” he says, ...

But the changes to the H-2A visa backed by the Trump administration won't solve farmers' labor problem, and will make the serious health and safety issues that farmworkers face even worse. Shortly ...

Tom Colicchio climbed the gray staircase from the basement kitchen and made his way toward New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani’s table. Colicchio is compact and lean, and he moves with purpose. You ...

A landmark class action settlement agreement between Amazon and a group of residents in Eastern Oregon today marks the first time a Big Tech company has committed to paying damages related to public ...