When the USDA finalized its new rules for SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, roughly a million kids were projected to lose school lunches. The Trump administration has steadily rolled back programs aimed at making sure kids have access to healthy food, including removing requirements for fruit, vegetables, and whole grains, as well as simply […]

Gael gets a little nervous when asked if he could discuss his seven years as an H2A guest worker on a Tennessee tobacco farm. The 27-year-old sat on a wooden chair outside his home on Isla Tecuena. It was the morning after his cousin’s wedding celebration and most of the small island’s population was asleep […]

Even as South Bend, Indiana has seen modest population growth in recent years, vacant lots are still scattered in parts of the city’s neighborhoods. Susan Greutman and her husband, Ryan, are trying to fill some of that space. The Greutmans are the owners and operators of Sunchoke Farms, an urban farm located in the Near […]