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.

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 ...

By Theodore Ross It was a good day at the old FERN HQ yesterday (i.e. our Slack channel) when we learned that eight of our articles were nominated for James Beard media awards in four ...

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 Eastern Shore of Virginia is the southern-most tip of the Delmarva Peninsula, a hunk of land under joint custody of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. The Virginia portion is a serrated slice ...

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.

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, ...