Big Brother for Baby Horses: Crowdsourcing Animal Care With Webcams
There is always someone watching your horse. That’s the thought behind Mare Stare, a website that runs live camera feeds from barns around the world.
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The Best Movie About Coming of Age and Crashing Combines You’ll Ever See
But it turns out that combine demolition derbies also work as wonderful narratives for telling the story of the family farm. Sue Arbuthnot and Richard Wilhelm explore this theme in...
The Illustrated Journals of a Dairy Farmer in 1941
The continuing journals of dairy farmer W.G. Pope from 1941, as illustrated by his great-grandson. This week: a sign.
No-Till Farming: What’s the Deal?
Like clean water and fresh air, good, farmable soil is vital to our continued survival – and we’re destroying it in mass quantities. Is no-till farming the solution?
Turning School Gardens into Outdoor Classrooms
Education Outside turns school gardens into classrooms. And today, kids across San Francisco get to study their science curriculum outside.
Convict Cultivation: Growing Organic Behind Bars
Woodbourne is a largely conventional prison, for largely conventional prisoners. With one caveat: It’s unlikely you’ll learn to massage and dry kale at most other lockups.
Photographing the Female Face of Farming
But that emotion was more complicated than simple pride. As a voiceover of Paul Harvey's 1978 "So God Made A Farmer” speech played, image after image (taken by 10 male photograph...
Why It’s Illegal to Use Milk Crates for Anything Besides Milk
Ever wondered where those stern warnings about “unauthorized use of milk cases” being illegal come from? Us too.
