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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 chemical industry is big business in Louisiana. Companies here manufacture plastics, fuels, pesticides, and cleaning products. But one part of the chemical industry that’s often overlooked is the ...

Trump’s chaotic first months back in office—his flurry of orders, tariffs, and cuts by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—have sent America’s farmers into a tailspin. Few farms ...

When they tried to save money by buying stuff on sale, they said, many of the discounts vanished when Kroger rang up their carts at checkout. Personal pizzas posted as on sale for $1 a piece rang up ...

Such accidents happen at alarmingly high rates in the poultry industry. Poultry processing has long been a dangerous job, one that requires workers to move quickly, perform repetitive tasks with ...