Rising temperatures in the Mediterranean ha[ve] rendered olive oil scarcer than it had been in recent memory,” writes Lauren Markham, and as prices have risen, so have thefts. “Thieves have ...

Last December, at the height of Greece’s olive harvest season, two men drove a stolen white truck to the Glyfada mill in a small town not far from Kalamata. After idling the truck for a ...

By Brent Cunningham Yesterday we took you to the Gulf Coast with a story about the latest struggles of the iconic redfish. Today we have a new piece, published in partnership with ...

By Theodore Ross My upbringing was, geographically speaking, a little unusual. I spent my childhood moving back and forth between New York City and Gulfport, Mississippi, my father in the North and ...

By Theodore Ross A lot of excitement at FERN’s virtual HQ this week when we released the trailer for “FORKED: Food politics in the MAHA age.” The premiere episode will drop July ...

FERN and KQED’s The California Report “Grange halls, like the one in the Anderson Valley in California’s Mendocino County, have been around for more than 150 years. The Grange began as a fraternal ...

The James Beard Media Awards are one of the most prestigious honors out there for folks like us at FERN, who make journalism about food and the environment. That’s why it is such a pleasure that we ...

The USDA traditionally shuts down its weekly Crop Progress report at the end of November because the growing season is over and the fall harvest is all but complete in most states. But this year, the ...

One of our new priorities at FERN is something we’re calling the “multiformat strategy.” It’s a philosophy for getting the best journalism on food and the environment to the most people… ...

Grange halls, like the one in the Anderson Valley in California’s Mendocino County, have been around for more than 150 years. The Grange began as a fraternal organization for farmers… ...

FERN and Inc. Magazine “ [T]the investigation into Mary ­Mahoney’s Old French House goes back to early 2016, after a confidential informant told a Marine Patrol officer that he wanted to discuss ...

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, ...