In Emure Ekiti, a town in Nigeria, hundreds of townspeople troop into the streets to celebrate the season of the yam harvest. Women sing praises and chant prayers, dressed in beautifully printed ...

How hard could collecting rainwater really be? Just put out a bucket and wait for the clouds, right? Well, not really. This task is deceptively complex, but it can be a game changer for some growers.

Modern Farmer: Let’s start at the beginning. Did you grow up in a farm family? Jennie Finch: Yes and no. I’m from southern California but my parents and my brothers were born in Iowa. I feel a strong ...

As legend has it, this massively destructive, earth-shattering fire was all started by a minor misstep of Mrs. O’Leary’s cow. A well-known song about the event claims: Before the fire had even died ...

Melissa Schneider didn’t set out to become a shepherdess. She left Los Angeles looking for something quieter. A life with a slower rhythm, a life closer to the ground. What she found on her Maine farm ...

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 ...

In the produce section of the IGA grocery store in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, a TV monitor shows customers, in real time, the roof of the store and farmers harvesting cucumbers that within an hour will be ...

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 ...

With recreational marijuana now legal in more than a dozen states (and Washington, D.C.), legal dispensaries are common across the country. One of the assumptions about the legalization of ...

Double digging is an alternative approach, one that capitalizes on the soil’s inherent ecological processes, while making it loose enough to plant in right away. The basic premise of double digging is ...

Arriving one morning to his fazenda at the foot of Espirito Santo’s mystical, monolithic mountain, Pedra Azul, he found the lush vegetation overrun with Jacu birds. An endangered, pheasant-like bird, ...

What is graywater, exactly? Household wastewater from washing machines, bathroom sinks, showers, and bathtubs is considered “gray” because it is only lightly soiled and poses a minimal health risk. As ...