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, ...

If your goal was to engineer a superior blackberry, you might attempt to breed out those annoying seeds that wedge themselves ...

If you wanted to create better blackberries, you could try to breed a variety without the seeds that get stuck in your teeth.

Michael Grunwald is an award-winning journalist and a contributor to The New York Times opinion section. He is a former staff ...

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In FERN’s latest story, published with Inc. Magazine, reporter Alexander Zaitchik unpacks the remarkable saga of Chris Fontes, a cannabis activist and software programmer who discovered a loophole in ...

Chris Jones, the 65-year-old Democratic nominee for Iowa secretary of agriculture, stands at the edge of a pond on a 72-acre farm in eastern Iowa. “What you see here is how fertile Iowa is,” he says, ...

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Tom Colicchio climbed the gray staircase from the basement kitchen and made his way toward New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani’s table. Colicchio is compact and lean, and he moves with purpose. You ...

“Rashid has calloused hands and the weathered face of a man who’s spent three decades under the Pakistani sun. What the 32-year-old doesn’t have anymore are functional teeth. Eight of them — gone in ...

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, ...