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Recycled content in food packaging is increasing as sustainability advocates press manufacturers to cut their use of virgin plastic. “The FDA has been very reluctant to adopt a modern perspective.”

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The future seems bright for kelp, a crop with multiple uses, including mitigating the impacts of climate change. But major obstacles remain for the seaweed industry. Read the final installment of our series, “Kelp’s Tangled Lines,” by Alexandra Talty, produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network.

A farm stop sells food from local farms, landing it somewhere between a grocery store, a farmers’ market, and a food hub. Here, farmers deliver produce to brick-and-mortar retail shops, set their own prices, and keep the bulk of the revenue.

Please have a look for my latest for Civil Eats. I was particularly fortunate to tell this story in longer form focusing on a community that sustaining itself through forward thinking policy.

This Vermont creamery pays its suppliers nearly twice the global market rate for milk and sources within a 15-mile radius, a commitment that sustains local agriculture and reinvigorates its community by fostering an interconnected local economy. This story by photographer and filmmaker Jake Price was co-published and supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

The Wampanoag are determined to assert their legal right to harvest Cape Cod waters, saying their work is an essential expression of 12,000 years of heritage, sovereignty, and lifeways.

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In a Q&A, Carmen Adams, a registered herbalist and community health nurse, discusses herbalism’s historic connection to Black American culture and how social media is giving the practice new life.