That’s the travesty that one poor alektorophobe – the term for people who suffer from irrational fears of chickens and other fowl – dreamt when he was nine years old. “Ever since… whenever I see a ...

My training was with double dug, bio-intensive agriculture with Alan Chadwick in the 1960s at UC Santa Cruz. So my starting point was working by hand. But I became interested in growing grain and ...

Cruising by on a boat, it’s easy to miss Jake Patryn’s farm, which looks like nothing more than an unassuming row of red and white buoys floating just off the coast of Machias, Maine. The crop he and ...

It’s an election year in the United States, which means that national news outlets are fixated on presidential politics. But although who Americans vote into the top office does have ramifications for ...

If you had millions of pounds of cheese—along with butter and dry-milk powders—where would you keep it? If you’re the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the answer is obvious: in a series ...

Can a dog play basketball? In 1989, Kevin di Cicco found a stray golden retriever roaming the mountains of Yosemite. After adopting the dog and naming him Buddy, di Cicco began training him to play ...

A dearth of children in the wake of the Great Plague, some historians surmise, led farmers to use adults to guard their crops, some keeping watch in straw huts as Native Americans did, evident in an ...

As she walks amongst the sea of green, yellow and orange leaves of a chestnut tree orchard, carefully collecting chestnut burrs from the trees, Sara Fitzsimmons, director of restoration for the ...

There are five key rules to follow when making bourbon whiskey. First, it must be distilled in the United States, and it must be a grain mixture with at least 51 percent corn mash. There can be no ...

Mealworms are commonly used as food for both animals and people. But research over the past few years has indicated that they have some even more impressive capabilities, including some that don’t ...

For smaller producers, however, they see plenty of life in those old apples in the barrel. Far from loading their into the cellar for the winter, farmers – even small- and medium-scale ones – are ...

That’s what Bobbie Kramer, a veterinarian near Portland, Oregon, was wondering when she responded to our recent call for reader questions about where their food comes from. “As a meat eater, I enjoy ...