After visiting the swine-friendly streets of a 19th-century New York City, when livestock were still a common sight in urban settings, Charles Dickens implored the readers of his 1842 travelogue, ...
The countryside around Kennett Square in Pennsylvania’s semi-rural Chester County is well-known for its thoroughbred horse farms, its rambling estates, and its vegetable producers who supply local ...
When you think of improving the soil, you may imagine planting cover crops or utilizing minimal tillage systems that allow microorganisms to thrive. And while these practices can help make the soil a ...
Tove Danovich’s Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them is decidedly not a sugary love letter to Danovich’s flock, loaded with sappy, capricious odes ...
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 ...
Emma Hearst and her husband John Barker, graduates of the Culinary Institute of America, had been working as professional chefs for 15 years when they decided to make a change. Instead of creating ...
Originally, Joe and Wendy Rizzo, co-owners of Mushroom Spirits Distillery, an offshoot of Ithaca, New York mushroom farm Blue Oyster Cultivation, had planned to make vodka—but not mushroom vodka.
How does the punk kid who wandered New York City become a farmer rooted in California? Talk to Korean-American farmer Kristyn Leach and you’ll find that seeds—most notably, culturally important ...
On the surface, it seemed a clear success story: Couple Achieves Marital Bliss Through Diversified Vegetable Operation. In reality? Such a wide variety of crops meant that the pair was locked into a ...
There are some 90 million dogs in the US alone, and their protein needs are rattling the human food chain. Humans are worried about what’s in dog food, not to mention what dog food is in––way too much ...
If you’re worried about having access to fresh food in the months ahead, become a member of a Community Supported Agriculture program! To help you find one near you, we’re compiling a list of farms ...
There’s a lot going on in farming these days. Some farmers are looking at succession plans, trying to figure out who will take over the family business. Others are looking to transition away from ...