Kaila Anderson stands in front of some photos in the farmhouse where she grew up, near the tiny town of Sabetha, in the northeast corner of Kansas. Outside, frozen February fields of ...

Farmers in Georgia’s northeastern corner woke up on Jan. 15 to discover that birds in their flock of 45,000 chickens were ill and dying. Within 24 hours, the state’s veterinary laboratory ...

The Burren is one of the most recent projects of the Irish Pub Company, a Dublin-based design group that has created upwards of 2,000 pubs in more than 100 countries on every continent ...

For much of the past two decades, soda was … suffering a bit of a reputation problem. This is because soda is really not good for you: It generally contains a ton of sugar and no ...

FERN is in a phase of growth and evolution to meet the changing media landscape for food and environmental journalism. We are fortunate to announce that Tanya Haider has agreed to join FERN’s Board of ...

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, ...

By Theodore Ross Yesterday marked another first in FERN’s ongoing project to adapt to newer forms of media. We published the pilot episode of Forked, a new interview podcast series. I’m the co-host ...

In early December 2023, through a scrim of swirling flurries, Mackenson Remy steered his minivan past an open gate in the security fence surrounding a gray concrete factory along Highway 85, on the ...