The first time I met Alex Paul he wore a stylish patterned shirt and a wide smile. Paul, an immigrant from Haiti, came to the U.S. in the summer of 2023 and got a job at Amick ...

An immigration raid twenty years ago transformed the workforce at U.S. meatpacking plants. Under Trump, the consequences of that shift are becoming painfully clear.

Haitians moved to Colorado to work for the world’s largest meatpacker on the promise of good jobs and a place to stay—only to be mistreated. Now, Trump is trying to deport them.

“I sometimes wonder whether my love of compost is a response to the dispiriting cleanness of modern life – the spray’n’wipe, the no-touch flush, the sanitisers and disinfectants. The compost pile ...

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 ...

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, ...

“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 food ...