A few years back, Carol Deppe, a retired geneticist and plant breeder, started selling and giving away seeds as an act of revolt. Expand your understanding of food systems as a Civil Eats member.

Your morning cereal or oatmeal. The bread on your sandwich. The corn chips for your snack, and the cookies for dessert. Not one would be possible with the humblest of ingredients: the seed. Seeds such ...

During the Irish Potato Famine, a million people starved and another million left the country after disease decimated the potato crop everyone depended on. Though the suffering had many causes, the ...