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Jodi Helmer is a North Carolina-based freelancer who writes about food and farming for National Geographic Traveler, Hemispheres, Modern Farmer and MensJournal.com among others. Visit her online at Jodihelmer.com.

After a Year of Pandemic Eating, Supermarkets Enlist Shoppers in Nutrition Programs

April 26, 2021

a dietician helps a shopper pick the healthiest food at a supermarket

An Appreciation for Lee Calhoun, the Man who Saved Southern Apples

May 25, 2020

Lee Calhoun. Photo credit: Donn Young, UNC College of Arts & Sciences

Restaurants Are Transforming into Grocery Stores to Survive the Pandemic

April 22, 2020

A line forms outside Founding Farmers grocery store. (Photo courtesy of Founding Farmers)

In Appalachia, Forest Farming is Protecting Wild Botanical Plants

February 19, 2020

Landowners harvesting black cohosh. (Photo by Priya Jaishanker for Appalachian Forest Farmers.)

Can Food Forests Fight Hunger?

August 14, 2019

hand picking an apple from a food forest

Foraging is Alive and Well in Baltimore. Can it Help Fight Hunger Too?

February 22, 2018

urban foraging for mushrooms

With Vertical Farms, Food Banks are Growing their Own Produce to Fight Hunger

November 17, 2017

A Fresh Idea to Improve Food Access

July 27, 2017

fresh truck

Bringing Healing Meals to the Chronically Ill in California

June 15, 2017

meal deliveries

Seeding a Need: How a Seed Company Doubles its Impact

February 9, 2017