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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?
Truffle Hunting Has Gone to the Dogs
Want to find a good truffle? Find yourself a good dog.
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.
Smokavore: On Growing Your Own Pot
I wanted to grow pot to consume it more thoughtfully, receiving it as a reward for my efforts rather than at my leisure. I wanted to live off the land: to get high on my own supply.
Gambling Debts: New Report Blasts Crop Insurance for Rewarding the Risky
When farmers experience crop lose due to extreme weather, crop insurance is there to help them out. In many ways, the insurance that farmers buy is not unlike car, home or health i...
Golden Rice: A Brief Timeline of The World’s Most Controversial Grain
Golden Rice is a genetically modified curveball, created to remedy Vitamin A deficiency among the world’s poorest souls.
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