We thought we’d start occasionally sharing some good new we find about food—food politics, agriculture, sustainability, and more.
January 2026 (we took off the month of December)
- Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first
- Indigenous Wisdom Offers Path Forward for Global Food Systems Reform
- Restoring the Reefs: Growing Oysters in the Baltimore Harbor
- 126 Food and Agriculture Organizations to Watch in 2026
- Community-Based Action Uplifts Small Farms in California
- New study: food banks divert a whopping 1.8 million metric tons of carbon emissions a year
- New research uncovers a surprisingly cheap way to farm kelp offshore
November 2025
- Virginia’s Styrofoam Ban: A Step Toward Less Waste
- Phase 3 Trial Shows Peanut Patch Treatment Helps Toddlers Build Tolerance to Deadly Allergy
- In this small Dutch town, every resident devotes 50% of the land to growing food
- Decade of slowing deforestation offers hope for forests
- Nations ratify the world’s first treaty to protect international waters
October 2025
- Updated FDA Guidelines for 2025 Including “Healthy” Food Labeling: How They Compare to the 2016 Guidelines and What it Could Mean for Health, Consumers, and Manufacturers
- India’s agroecology programme, ‘Zero Budget Natural Farming’, delivers biodiversity and economic benefits without lowering yields
- ‘DoorDash for Good’ Rescues 250 Million Pounds of Food from Becoming Waste
- WFP report finds 80 million more children now supported by national school meal programmes worldwide
- How to Start a Community Garden
- Immigrant Farmworkers Win Housing Rights in Vermont
- Denver’s Food Forests Provide Free Fruit While Greening the Environment
September 2025
- Multiple “Big Food” corporations (including Kraft Heinz, General Mills, and Kellogg’s) have committed to removing artificial dyes from some or all of their products in the near future
- Culinary Medicine Can Improve Nutrition Knowledge in Medical Trainees
- Four Diets Show Strong Evidence for Improving Type 2 Diabetes
- Steady Work, Lasting Change: How Maine is Leveraging Federal Nutrition Programs to End Childhood Food Insecurity
- Same space, two harvests: Euronews visits the first seaweed farm at an offshore wind park
- Scientists Engineer Yeast to Create Honey Bee Superfood – Colonies Grew 15-Fold
- Disasters Block Local Food Access. One Groundbreaking Group Has a Solution
August 2025
- Produce-prescription programs may lead to better health outcomes, study finds
- Ancient Grains as Functional Foods: Integrating Tradition with Modern Science
- Sweden becomes the first country in the world to ensure all egg-laying chickens are cage-free — without any laws requiring it
- Spain strengthens ocean protection leadership
- Immigrant Farmworkers Win Housing Rights in Vermont
- US Importers Sued for ‘Greenwashing’ Mexican Avocados
- Capitol Vegetable Garden: Our demonstration garden at the Capitol Building in Madison
- Scaling Up Regenerative Agriculture by Changing the Culture of Farming
- Madison’s first Collard Fest combines storytelling and sustenance
July 2025
- ‘Food is medicine’ program shows potential for improving diet quality and food security
- The Nutritional Advantages of Regenerative Agriculture
- INTERNATIONAL OCEAN CONFERENCE ENDS WITH HIGH SEAS TREATY ON VERGE OF ENTRY INTO FORCE
- Scientists find a new way to help plants fight diseases
- Research shows how solar arrays can aid grasslands during drought
- New cheese packaging decomposes in 300 days, not 1,000 years: ‘The solution was in the cheese itself’
- Farmworkers Heal Climate-Scarred Land With Native Seeds
- ‘Food is more than what we eat’: East High hosts ECO Summit [LOCAL]
June 2025
- YouTube Series ‘Local Legends’ Inspires Food System Change
- Okra and Fenugreek Extracts Safely Remove Microplastics From Water in New Texas Research
- Dane County Opens 24/7 Food Scrap Drop-off Sites
- Former Cafe La Bellitalia space will host new community kitchen (Cap Times)
- Free Summer Meals Available for Wisconsin Kids Through DPI Nutrition Program
- Wisconsin agriculture conservation program yields farmers’ savings
May 2025
- Repurposing Food Waste in University Dining: A Triple Win
- Expanding the Table: How Regional Food Systems Planning Can Drive Lasting Change (Dane County mentioned!)
- Cleaner, Greener, Tastier: The Future of Shrimp Farming?
- NIH to Work with Food Companies to Get Harmful Synthetic Food Dyes, Approved for Decades, Out of US Grocery Stores
- Pollen Replacement Food for Honey Bees Brings New Hope for Struggling Colonies and the Crops They Support
- Adults With Life-Threatening Peanut Allergy Can Desensitize With Daily Doses, ‘Life-Changing’ Study Shows
- Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say
- Flower strips could save apple farmers pest control costs
- An Ancient Irrigation System May Help Farmers Face Climate Change
April 2025
- 21 New Books to Inspire the Movement for Sustainable Food Systems
- Could Your Next Prescription Come from a Chef? Introducing CIA’s New Master’s in Culinary Therapeutics
- New Rice Cultivar Eliminates 70% of Methane Emissions While Boosting Yields
- People Are Paid to Return Coffee Cups in This City–Spoiler Alert, it Worked
- Technology makes pesticides stick to plant leaves
- Madison baker competes on ‘The Great American Baking Show’
Know of a positive food story you think we might want to share? Please send it to info@willystreet.coop.
