Food

Today is Juneteenth, honoring the day enslaved people in Galveston learned of their freedom two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. Our Riley Wilson reports on the weekend of events in Lubbock, including a cookout this evening, and parade and festival on Saturday. You can find a schedule of events with addresses here. According to a nationwide survey, beekeepers lost more than 60 percent of their commercially managed honeybee colonies between the summer of 2024 and early 2025. Texas Public Radio's Tim Gutierrez reports the bee crisis could have consequences far beyond honey production.

The Texas Hill Country is famous for its peaches. But the region's trees have been consistently stressed by a lack of chill hours during the winter, leading to small crops in the summer.

Community-supported agriculture has been a popular way for people to buy produce from local farms for decades. There's new pressure on farmers to offer more customization and convenience – but some CSA supporters worry that may dilute the original purpose.

Half of all Texas restaurant operators failed to earn a profit last year, according to data tracked by the National Restaurant Association.

Among other things, the Texas Nutrition Advisory Committee is tasked with developing new dietary and nutrition guidelines and new educational requirements. The committee has less than a year to produce a report that could effect all levels of education — including Texas medical schools.

The newly instated Texas Nutrition Advisory Committee is responsible for creating dietary guidelines and KERA’s Abigail Ruhman reports it has until September to produce a report that could effect continuing education requirements for medical providers. In the last legislative session, Texas lawmakers finally increased funding for disabled students. KERA's Bill Zeeble explains that the TEA must now figure out where to send the new money.

The food pyramid informs government nutrition programs, as well as what the military eats.

“Tamales are not easy to make. And it takes a whole community, a whole family."

The announcement that Tyson would shutter a massive beef processing plant in Nebraska was the first such closure in more than a decade. Beef processors are running at lower capacity, as the U.S. cattle herd size is the smallest it's been since the 1950s.

Cottonseeds could help reduce hunger and add new revenue for farmers. One researcher has been working for decades to make edible seeds a reality.