Native Lands: The Birthplace of Quinoa
The full story paired with these photos won the 2015 James Beard Foundation Award for excellence in writing in “Food Politics, Policy, and the Environment.” More on this story Read Lisa’s complete...
View ArticleThe Quinoa Quarrel
This story won a 2015 James Beard Foundation Award for excellence in writing in “Food Politics, Policy, and the Environment.” At the sixty-sixth session of the United Nations, the General Assembly...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Iowa
“I’m driving through these beautiful fields. I want to grab that corn like you’ve never seen. So rich, so beautiful,” Donald Trump told a standing-room crowd last July, at a Make America Great Again...
View ArticleThe food revolution’s missing piece
FERN’s latest story, published with Harper’s Magazine, is an excerpt from Ted Genoways’ new book, This Blessed Earth, an intimate account of a year with the Hammonds, a Nebraska farm family. Here,...
View ArticleQ&A: How Pretty Prairie, Kansas, dealt with its drinking problem
Elizabeth Royte, a contributing editor at FERN, writes about the long history of nitrate contamination in the water of Pretty Prairie, Kansas, a farming community just west of Wichita, in the latest...
View ArticleDrinking problems: A Kansas farm town confronts a tap-water crisis
The friendly waitress at the Pretty Prairie Steak House delivers tumblers of tap water as soon as diners take their seats. Across Main Street, the Wagon Wheel Café offers the same courtesy. Customers...
View Article