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Xander Peters

Xander Peters is a freelance writer living in New Orleans. His work appeared in Rolling Stone, Reason, and Earther, among others.

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Salt, Soil, & Supper: Amending Florida's constitution to save its waterways

by Xander Peters December 8, 2021September 27, 2023

"Florida just wasn't designed geologically to support 20 million people."

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Salt, Soil, & Supper: New Orleans, plural

by Xander Peters December 1, 2021September 27, 2023
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Requiem for the longleaf pine

by Xander Peters October 6, 2021October 6, 2021
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Salt, Soil, & Supper: The social contracts of municipal water systems

by Xander Peters August 18, 2021September 27, 2023
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Salt, Soil, & Supper: Uprooting 'private landowner syndrome'

by Xander Peters August 11, 2021September 27, 2023
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'A lifetime of damage' on a creosote plume in Houston's Fifth Ward

by Xander Peters August 3, 2021August 2, 2021
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Salt, Soil, & Supper: This one's for the trees

by Xander Peters July 21, 2021September 27, 2023
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Salt, Soil, & Supper: From cell to soil

by Xander Peters June 30, 2021September 27, 2023
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Salt, Soil, & Supper: The whole hog's history

by Xander Peters June 16, 2021September 27, 2023
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Salt, Soil, & Supper: Food apartheid, continued

by Xander Peters May 26, 2021September 27, 2023
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Salt, Soil, & Supper: Call it what it is—Food apartheid

by Xander Peters May 19, 2021September 27, 2023
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Salt, Soil, & Supper: Meet Ko Bragg, Scalawag's new Race & Place editor

by Xander Peters April 28, 2021September 27, 2023
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Salt, Soil, & Supper: From Mississipi's farms to kids' bellies

by Xander Peters April 14, 2021September 27, 2023
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Salt, Soil, & Supper: Louisiana's shrimping industry is in jeopardy. Again!

by Xander Peters March 24, 2021September 27, 2023
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Salt, Soil, & Supper: Urban ag gets a bump from the feds

by Xander Peters March 3, 2021September 27, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

After two devastating hurricanes, southwest Louisiana worries the rest of the country has already moved on

by Xander Peters November 9, 2020September 27, 2023
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Salt, Soil, & Supper: Let's talk Indigenous gumbo

by Xander Peters October 14, 2020September 27, 2023
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Too heartbreaking to leave, too expensive to stay. More than 802,000 homes are at risk of climate disaster—mostly in the South.

by Xander Peters August 7, 2020November 21, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

What happened to New Orleans' Black truck farming culture?

by Xander Peters April 27, 2020September 27, 2023

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