Wild salmon connects consumers to landscapes and small fishing families in Alaska When you see “wild salmon” on a menu or sign at your local fish counter, it usually means the fish were caught in Alaska. Only about a quarter of the salmon Americans eat is wild. Of that portion, at least 80 percent comes…
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Alaska Runs on Salmon
By Clay Bowers
Wild Thing: Pine Needle Tea
By Sarah Hagaman and Jill Melton
Counting Sheep
One Tennessee farm is bringing lamb into the mainstream. Farmers Elaine and Howard Dustin are animal people. That much is clear immediately as we meet them at their farm, Belfair Farms in Lawrenceburg, 90 minutes south of Nashville. Along with their 138 sheep, they have 10 dogs, 50 chickens, and eight horses. Having grown up…
By Elena Seeley
In Labels We Trust: How Food Certification Labels Can Help Consumers Make Better Choices
Can food certification labels, seals and standards help eaters make better choices? We think they can. But there are hundreds of different labels and claims that can appear on food packaging—and the challenge is knowing which of them can be trusted. This story was produced in partnership with Food Tank. Story by Elena Seeley, Food…
Grass-fed Beef at Scale: Montana’s Matador Ranch Partners with Grass Fed Foods
Matador Ranch is committed to a sustainable ranching model that is an archetype of regeneratively raising grass-fed beef. Its partnership with Grass Fed Foods—the largest grass-fed platform in the United States—aims to bring better and healthier beef to more consumers. In an irrigated field framed by the gentle rise of Montana’s Blacktail Mountains and the…
By Leslie Baehr