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Anyone who can make a pot of tea can dye a skein of wool or yard of plain linen to whatever color they want, using commonly found plants.

We meet the new breed of global growers embracing agriculture.

The continuing journals of dairy farmer W.G. Pope from 1941, as illustrated by his great-grandson. This week: getting low on sweet cider.

The Jacu bird has an excellent eye for coffee beans — which makes its excrement some of the most expensive coffee in the world.

After stints in Cape Town and San Francisco, Jakoba and Cornelis Dumas – a “part-time accountant, part-time mother,” 34, and an industrial designer specializing in furniture, 35, respectively – decided it was time to settle down. Their dream? To build a house at Jacobsdal, the wine farm on the edge of Stellenbosch, South Africa, where Cornelis grew up.

Luckily, Joy Barlogio of Jack Creek Farms knows a thing or two about picking the best fruit among the dry vines. Her family has 115 years of pumpkin growing experience and she buil...

Thanks to J. Paul Getty Museum’s new platform for open source material, OpenContent, we’ve been able to dig these gems up from the past.

On the fertile mediterranean island of Salina, capers are preserved the old-fashioned way, a painstaking process that involves packing them in salt.

The frozen tundra of the Arctic is experiencing something of an agriculture boom.