Aside from the obvious savings when you harvest and plant your own seed, you also preserve the seeds that performed best in ...

If you want to promote higher populations of beneficial insects, cull your buckwheat crops within 20 days of flowering. If ...

Regenerative practices on farmland are not new. They have been carried out by people across the world for centuries. One important aspect of maintaining a regenerative agricultural system is nutrient ...

The American barbecue brisket that popped up on the menu at NYC bistro ACRU was a bit different than what one would typically expect from a Greenwich Village restaurant. The meat came from a dairy cow ...

The aroma of cedar smoke fills the early autumn air, punctuated by the crackle of wood as Norma Naranjo rakes out hot ashes from the horno, a beehive-shaped adobe oven, with a long wooden paddle. She ...

Mercy for Animals president and CEO Leah Garcés has been an animal rights advocate fighting the factory farming system for more than two decades. But her approach to advocacy changed the day she met ...

At the apple orchard where I used to work, autumn’s encroaching frenzy had the most unassuming harbinger. One day in early August, a ladder would appear in a solitary old tree by the driveway, ...

Chickens packed into spaces so small that many are unable to stand or walk. Birds panting due to overheating. Many have sustained injuries, and they all sit on a cake of fecal matter. That’s how a ...

The American presidential campaign to many feels existential. The candidate who wins will guide (at minimum) the next four years of fiscal and social policy in the US, with reverberations across the ...

“Of 400 farms in our county, only five are organic,” says Matt Fitzgerald of Fitzgerald Organics in Hutchinson, Minnesota. His 2,500-acre family farm is patchwork across 40 miles of land the family ...

When Paula and Dale Boles took over Dale’s father’s farmland in North Carolina, they thought that poultry farming would be a good way to work the land until they were ready to pass it on to their ...