Food Systems

May 28, 2026

Environment, Food Systems, What Works

Would You Eat a Salmon Fillet Grown in a Lab?

Wildtype, a San Francisco startup, recently secured FDA approval to bring ‘cultivated’ seafood to the market.

By: Josh Kozelj

May 11, 2026

Environment, Food Systems, What Works

Fighting Climate Change, One Sprout at a Time

How an entrepreneur invented seaweed pots to help gardeners grow healthier plants and sequester carbon.

By: Andrew Engelson

April 30, 2026

Environment, Food Systems, What Works

Finding Food in the Forest

These Vancouver Island foragers make everything from mushroom powders to pickled spruce tips. Thank you, wild places.

By: Ryan Stuart

April 24, 2026

Energy, Food Systems

A New Approach to Agrivoltaics Gives Farmers Precision Control Over Sunlight and Shadow

By using solar panels to control where shade falls on agricultural lands, growers can save water, reduce plant stress, increase crop yields, all while producing electricity.

By: Syris Valentine

November 28, 2025

Food Systems, Indigenous

Indigenous Chef’s Night Brings First Foods Fine Dining

Native chefs came together for one night only in Seattle for a traditional gastronomic showcase, featuring dishes by Sean Sherman, Pyet Despain, Rob Kinneen, and Luke Black Elk.

By: Lyric Aquino

November 13, 2025

Food Systems, What Works

The Grocery Store the Earth Needs

How package-free markets like Portland’s Realm Refillery change how we shop and reduce plastic waste.

By: Josh Kozelj

August 5, 2025

Food Systems, What Works

A Brilliant Community Farm Rises from Brambles

Sechelt imports almost all its food. This Indigenous-led effort wants to show a better approach can take root.

By: Hilary Angus

January 31, 2025

Climate, Food Systems, What Works

A Revolutionary Approach to the World’s Protein Problem

Searching for a meat substitute, this Vancouver company found one in the rootlike structure of mushrooms.

By: Inder Nirwan

September 9, 2024

Climate, Environment, Food Systems, What Works

How a Wildly Successful Seed Company Stays True to Its Roots

Retaining its focus on pollinators, climate change and soil health, West Coast Seeds sells over three million seed packets a year.

By: Katie Hyslop and Amanda Follett Hosgood

July 12, 2024

Food Systems, Indigenous, What Works

A Coastal Revolution in Hospital Food

How health-care visionaries are creating tasty, culturally friendly menus while cutting waste and carbon emissions.

By: Tim Lydon