Preserving Appalachian Biodiversity with Cider Apples
Emily Payne | Food Tank
A quality cider is the result of a fine-tuned recipe, with each apple variety contributing a certain component to the final product, Michael Gutensohn tells Food Tank. Gutensohn is Assistant Professor of...
20 Jan 2020
20 Jan 2020
A Little Wild in Our Rice
Scientists are collaborating with farmers in Vietnam in a new project which is striving to develop improved varieties of rice which can withstand the challenges of climate change by tapping into the genetic diversity available in...
15 Jan 2020
15 Jan 2020
How Peru's Potato Museum Could Stave Off World Food Crisis
Dan Collyns | The Guardian
With a climate changing faster than most crops can adapt and food security under threat around the world, scientists have found hope in a living museum dedicated to a staple eaten by millions daily: the...
5 Dec 2019
5 Dec 2019
Meet the Chef Serving up Pork Schmaltz in Appalachia
Emily Payne | Food Tank
“California has nothing on us,” Chef Ian Boden, Owner of The Shack in Staunton, Virginia, tells Food Tank. “Except 70-degree weather 10 months out of the year.”
Boden is cooking in The Shack’s intimate,...
26 Nov 2019
26 Nov 2019
22 People & Organizations Working to Preserve Appalachia's Biodiversity
This fall, Food Tank and the Crop Trust traveled throughout Appalachia to highlight and celebrate its unique food cultures and agricultural diversity. As part of a multi-year, multi-country #CropsInColor campaign, we focused on...
14 Nov 2019
14 Nov 2019
From Coffee to Cosmetics
Companies are Looking for Ways to Protect the Plants Their Products are Made From
The number of plant species in the world is declining, and climate change is poised to reck further havoc on commodity crops. As shrinking natural...
11 Nov 2019
11 Nov 2019
The Chef Keeping Appalachian Food for Appalachians
Emily Payne | Food Tank
“Comfort food is for cowards, that ain’t what we do here,” Chef Marion Ohlinger tells Food Tank. A 12th-generation West Virginian, Ohlinger was born and raised on his family farm and now owns Hill & Hollow...
30 Oct 2019
30 Oct 2019
How to Save Coffee From Climate Change
Climate change demands a food revolution. Faced with heat, drought, pests and diseases, the crops we eat every day could become relics in a generation or less, at least where they are currently grown.
Take coffee. Right now, the...
29 Oct 2019
29 Oct 2019
How Fiery Desert Chilis Can Protect Us from Climate Change
A landscape of thorny agaves, cacti, mesquite trees, and rock is not the first place one might imagine searching for the future of food. How could such a hot, dry place contain some of the keys to nourishing the world?
Colin...
22 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019