Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig fairfoodproject.org. NS
Answer
fairfoodproject.org. 5 NS ns-45.awsdns-05.com.
fairfoodproject.org. 5 NS ns-1246.awsdns-27.org.
fairfoodproject.org. 5 NS ns-342.awsdns-42.com.
fairfoodproject.org. 5 NS ns-148.awsdns-18.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0