Sprinklers, which spray water into the air where it is easily evaporated or lost to the wind, are inherently inefficient. They spread water over large areas, regardless of whether there are roots ...

When Leanna Maksymiuk started keeping sheep at Lone Sequoia Ranch, her business in British Columbia, she did it with a direct interest in fiber art. Today, she has a flock of 25 sheep, mostly ...

Small dairy farms in Vermont teeter chronically on the brink of insolvency. Nearly half of Vermont’s dairies have gone out of business in the past 10 years, primarily small farms. Things got even ...

Along the eastern seaboard, there’s a growing network of folks interested in reanimating the dead—or, at least, the nearly dead. “There’s definitely a robust network on the eastern seaboard of people ...

Sundrop Farms, located near Port Augusta in South Australia, is the first commercial agricultural system of its kind: It doesn’t use groundwater, soil, pesticides, or fossil fuels to grow crops. The ...

With a background in food policy and environmental causes, Karyn Bigelow already understood how vital bees are to the environment. But the isolation during 2020 sent her on a path to help diversify ...

Last spring, farms across the country saw a surge in demand for their CSA programs, with signups and waitlists that flourished at rates not seen before. As families sheltered in place at home and ...

We can thank the steady march of technology and innovation in the 20th century, which led to the development of the Broad Breasted Whites. Efficiency is the raison d’etre of this breed, which now ...

We might be getting ahead of ourselves. But Virginia farmer James Henderson is capitalizing on an under-tapped resource with Heal Fast, his new line of porcine fat beauty products. The Heal Fast ...

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 ...

As of last summer, the island nation of New Zealand was home to 6.3 million head of dairy cattle, up 82 percent over the last two decades. The country also holds 3.8 million beef cattle, 800,000 deer ...

(Editor’s Note: A previous version of this story stated that thieves stole an estimated 60 million pounds of maple syrup. It was actually 6 million. We regret the ...