Home Gardeners are Breeding More Diverse Corn than You Can Buy
Hybrid corn grows in Los Angeles.
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Will Climate Change Actually Help Crops? (Spoiler: Maybe)
An excess of CO2 would be good for crops, right? Well …
Sponsored: Can Mushrooms Save The Honeybee & Our Food Supply?
A series of connections between bears, trees, mushrooms and bees may have led to an incredible discovery for the survival of the honeybee.
New Study Claims Neonicotinoid Pesticides Really Do Help Soybean Yields
But only in the south. And they’re still doing terrible things to our planet.
Kickstarter-Funded Chocolate Bar Company Wants to Pay Africans a Decent Wage For Once
A chocolate bar you can actually feel good about.
Our latest #iamamodernfarmer contest winner, urban homesteader Angela Ferraro-Fanning, and her family are hoping to turn a circa-1800 New Jersey farm property into a working organic farm.
Permaculture: You’ve Heard of It, But What the Heck Is It?
Five talking points to explain sustainable agriculture’s underground cousin.
7 of the Best Farm Camps for Kids
Kids should leave summer camp with new skills…like milking cows and picking cucumbers.
When Plants Are Cut, They Bleed, Sort Of
New research shows us just what happens when a plant is cut. It’s some crazy stuff.
