When Eat Local Sudbury Co-op closed back in 2018, Chantal Lewington and a group of fellow Ontario farmers gathered to discuss their options for getting products to the community. It was a worrying ...

For Joseph Goni, a fourth-generation dairy farmer in Tulare County, California, the region’s historic floods were part of family lore. As such, his grandfather, who lived through the 1955 deluge, ...

As heat and water scarcity increase, farmers have to adjust their strategies to ensure good production. The bottom line is important, but so is conserving non-renewable resources. Dry farming is one ...

Growing a garden or a few crops in the winter can be especially challenging if you live farther north where pesky frost and below-zero temperatures are a regular occurrence. One tool that can help ...

It might seem counterintuitive, but tropical forest soils are, almost universally, terrible for farming. That’s due primarily to the insanely dense amount of life in these environments: In less alive ...

The main reason I love to travel to France and Italy is for food, specifically the tomatoes you find in these countries. The combination of tomatoes and olive oil is my favorite breakfast—just sliced ...

In a second building on his property in Springfield, Oregon, Gared Hansen grows mushrooms containing psilocybin, a psychedelic compound that grows naturally in the environment. Hansen harvests the ...

It’s a late winter morning, and I’m overwhelmed. As I stand beneath the verdant green tree, close to 1,000 ripe pomelos tug on the branches, threatening to fall. I pluck a particularly stubborn fruit ...

Perched on top of a narrow hilltop ridge in Seattle, Washington’s Beacon Hill neighborhood, El Centro de la Raza serves as a voice and resource hub for the city’s Latino/a community. The nonprofit ...

When Mary Dougherty first heard of the plan to build a 26,000-hog concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) in her home of Bayfield, Wisconsin, she knew it was bad news. What she didn’t know was ...

Milking a cobra may sound insane, but commercial venom extraction can be rewarding for its potential medicinal uses. The poison is used as an antidote if someone is bitten, and its purported ...

A chicken with its head cut off is more than just a saying. When taking a hatchet to a chicken or performing some other at-home method of chicken slaughter, we’re sometimes guilty of aiming too high ...