Starting July 1, school districts will be able to specify that they’d like unprocessed or minimally processed food to be “locally grown, locally raised, or locally caught.”

Read more from Lisa Elaine Held in this week's #FieldReport ⬇️
buff.ly/4a169Dd

Congratulations to Civil Eats staff reporter Grey Moran and senior staff reporter and contributing editor Lisa Elaine Held for their wins at the NAAJAgJournos 2024 awards!

Read more about their award-winning reporting here.➡️civileats.com/about/awards/

The Iowa Senate passed one of the bills I reported on in this story yesterday and sent it to the House: civileats.com/2024/03/27/ins…

My latest Field Report on recent coverage of a study on carbon emissions from urban farming. “When urban farms were separated from community gardens in the study, the higher rate of greenhouse gas emissions reported essentially disappeared.”
Civil Eats civileats.com/2024/04/03/des…

1. Many environmental groups began taking huge donations from the Waltons — the family that owns most of Walmart — starting about 15 yrs ago.

Today our fisheries, food, and water policies have been thoroughly corrupted.

civileats.com/walanthropy/

Former CAFS Summer Media Fellow Lisa Elaine Held breaks down some of the trends in the data in this year's #CensusOfAgriculture .

A wash of Walton family funding to news media is creating echo chambers in environmental journalism, and beyond. Are editorial firewalls up to the task? - My piece for Civil Eats’s series exploring how Walmart-built wealth influences food and ag. policy. civileats.com/2024/02/28/wal…

#Walton family funding to news media is creating echo chambers in journalism. Are editorial firewalls up to the task?

Read the latest in our investigative series, #Walanthropy , by Bill Lascher.

This story was published in partnership w/ Nonprofit Quarterly. buff.ly/42VkAqi

#SundayMorning Reading: 'As Florida looks to fill worker shortages, the law poses big questions about the future of farm labor in the U.S. as similar policies could expand elsewhere.' Turning Farm Towns Into ‘Ghost Towns’ via Civil Eats civileats.com/2024/02/07/a-f…

Come work with us! It’s a great, growing team driving serious enterprise reporting on the food system at a time when so many publications are cutting staff…

Some of the top-line changes in this year’s #CensusofAgriculture have big implications.

Lisa Elaine Held details three initial takeaways in this week’s #FieldReport ⬇️
buff.ly/3uuYKgQ

My latest for Civil Eats, on the important forage fish that are turned into oil/meal to feed chickens, pigs, and the farmed fish we eat. 'These fish are very vulnerable to exploitation and they could definitely be locally depleted or eliminated.' civileats.com/2024/02/20/the…

Must-read story by Grey Moran on Civil Eats today. '9 months after the law’s passage, some farmers are struggling to find workers...while farmworkers live and work with heightened uncertainty that ultimately impacts their health and safety.' civileats.com/2024/02/07/a-f…

Looking for farmers to speak to their experiences participating in carbon market platforms--specifically Truterra, ForGround by Bayer, Corteva Carbon. DM or email me lisa [at] civileats. Ty! #AgTwitter

Please join me in welcoming Tracie Powell and sam mogannam to Civil Eats’ board of directors!

As we mark our 15th anniversary, we welcome the depth of knowledge and experience that both of these superstars bring to our next chapter.

civileats.com/2024/02/07/civ…

A new U.S. EPA proposal to significantly reduce water pollution from slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants is facing backlash from the meat industry and environmental groups.

That and more in this week's #FieldReport from Lisa Elaine Held ⬇️
buff.ly/491Di1J

The most important food story right now: 'Martin Griffiths, the UN’s emergency relief chief, told CNN the 'great majority” of 400,000 Gazans characterized by UN agencies as at risk of starving 'are actually in famine.'' cnn.com/2024/01/30/mid…