Food & Foodways Archives – Scalawag

Black elders saved this couple's Mississippi farm. Now they're harvesting ancestral techniques—and tomatoes

by Erica Hensley and Teresa Ervin-Springs August 3, 2022August 3, 2022

Mississippi is home to the most Black farmers—they're also aging and retiring the fastest.

Southern Politics

'This plan is a lie.' How biogas could do more harm than good for the hog industry

by Cameron Oglesby March 24, 2022March 28, 2022

Exploring the solar system through Indigenous winter solstice traditions

by Rosalyn R. LaPier, The Conversation December 20, 2021December 16, 2021

Salt, Soil, & Supper: The social contracts of municipal water systems

by Xander Peters August 18, 2021August 18, 2021

Salt, Soil, & Supper: Uprooting 'private landowner syndrome'

by Xander Peters August 11, 2021August 13, 2021

Salt, Soil, & Supper: This one's for the trees

by Xander Peters July 21, 2021July 21, 2021

Southern Politics

The incalculable cost of cheap chicken—and the hidden industry that shoulders it

by Tina Vasquez July 20, 2021September 23, 2021

Salt, Soil, & Supper: From cell to soil

by Xander Peters June 30, 2021

A prisoner's apothecary: Solitary Gardens reimagines six-by-nine cells

by Roshan Abraham, Next City June 30, 2021June 30, 2021

Salt, Soil, & Supper: The whole hog's history

by Xander Peters June 16, 2021June 16, 2021

Salt, Soil, & Supper: Food apartheid, continued

by Xander Peters May 26, 2021May 26, 2021

Salt, Soil, & Supper: Call it what it is—Food apartheid

by Xander Peters May 19, 2021May 19, 2021

Scalawag Updates

Salt, Soil, & Supper: From Mississipi's farms to kids' bellies

by Xander Peters April 14, 2021April 28, 2021

A New Crop: Portraits of Houston's Black urban farmers

by Lenard Smith, Jr. April 9, 2021April 9, 2021

Scalawag Updates

Salt, Soil, & Supper: Louisiana's shrimping industry is in jeopardy. Again!

by Xander Peters March 24, 2021March 24, 2021

Scalawag Updates

Salt, Soil, & Supper: Urban ag gets a bump from the feds

by Xander Peters March 3, 2021March 3, 2021

Scalawag Updates

(Virtual Event) Communing: Cooking & Cocktails with Scalawag

by Scalawag Team December 4, 2020December 4, 2020

Safety looks like full bellies in a pandemic

by Courtney Napier November 30, 2020November 30, 2020

Scalawag Updates

Southern Sustenance

by Scalawag Editors November 20, 2020April 16, 2021

This Durham trio wants you to pay Black farmers

by Kyesha Jennings November 16, 2020November 17, 2020

Southern Politics

Celebrity chefs cook up joy at the polls in the South

by Courtney Napier November 2, 2020November 2, 2020

Growing pains

by Adjoa D. Danso October 16, 2020October 16, 2020

Scalawag Updates

Salt, Soil, & Supper: Let's talk Indigenous gumbo

by Xander Peters October 14, 2020March 3, 2021

Organizers in the Rio Grande Valley worked this summer to ensure people had access to food in neighborhoods with high rates of food insecurity. All photos by Ángela García.

Southern Politics

Love to the RGV from a new generation of activists

by Deana Ayers October 12, 2020October 12, 2020

Sweet (and sticky) redemption

by Maurice Bailey & Nik Heynen September 29, 2020October 1, 2020

Southern Politics

COVID-19 hit Arkansas poultry workers at an 'alarming rate' as state and industry officials looked on

by Olivia Paschal August 24, 2020September 16, 2020

Scalawag Updates

Update: SOLD OUT! Buy Gravy's print issue centering voices of color, support marginalized food writers (& Scalawag)

by Scalawag Team August 6, 2020October 9, 2020

The Remedy: The Costello family's 'next-best thing' spaghetti sauce

by Mike Costello July 14, 2020November 19, 2020

White food media and the commodification of resistance

by Tunde Wey July 13, 2020February 26, 2021

The Remedy: Mrs. Betty's macaroni-and-cheese

by Cynthia R. Greenlee July 10, 2020November 19, 2020