By Theodore Ross My upbringing was, geographically speaking, a little unusual. I spent my childhood moving back and forth between New York City and Gulfport, Mississippi, my father in the North and ...

By Brent Cunningham Yesterday we took you to the Gulf Coast with a story about the latest struggles of the iconic redfish. Today we have a new piece, published in partnership with ...

A] blackened redfish fillet is not just a symbol of Louisiana cuisine, but the dish that made Cajun cooking a worldwide sensation,” writes Boyce Upholt, noting that the dish’s rise in the 1980s ...

By Theodore Ross A lot of excitement at FERN’s virtual HQ this week when we released the trailer for “FORKED: Food politics in the MAHA age.” The premiere episode will drop July ...

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Louisiana’s coastline is a river delta, formed by the Mississippi over millennia as its current slowed and relinquished its mud into a calm and sheltered gulf. In the back-and-forth contest ...

In recent years, that decline has reversed, as the National Grange has seen its membership grow incrementally — a sign that in some rural communities, at least, people are seeing the Grange as a way ...

The James Beard Media Awards are one of the most prestigious honors out there for folks like us at FERN, who make journalism about food and the environment. That’s why it is such a pleasure that we ...

FERN and KQED’s The California Report “Grange halls, like the one in the Anderson Valley in California’s Mendocino County, have been around for more than 150 years. The Grange began as a fraternal ...

FERN and Orion Magazine “They are neither plant nor animal, but a wild conglomeration of things, existing in ways that are so central to ecosystems that what we have learned about them forces the ...

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