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Undead Ag: What We Can Learn from Zombie Victory Gardens
Zombies may be hungry for brains, but when the zombie apocalypse hits, you’re gonna be starving for fresh veggies. So time to start planting.
We tracked down Badamsuren, a Mongolian camel herder in his mid-50s, to learn a bit more about his day-to-day life.
Photo Diary: The Pacific Northwest Farm Scene, Part 2
Hello! My name's Eugénie. I'm a photographer from Portland, Ore., currently on the road in the great Northwest. I've just wrapped an artist's residency at the Tofino Botanical Gar...
Getting Big Companies to Play Nice with Small Farmers
Hal Hamilton started the Sustainable Food Lab in 2004 as a way for food companies, non-profits and government agencies to work together with the purpose of mainstreaming sustainability in food and beverage.
For more than 8,000 years, people have taken advantage of this chemical transaction, fermentation, by adding yeast to grape juice. Yeast, over the course of weeks, will then turn t...
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: ice-cold sodas.
Ham-Fisted: Banker Forks Over Big Dough for Perfect Pig
G. Chris Andersen is in the premier league of Wall Street investment bankers. But now? Now he is obsessed with creating the perfect pig.
5 Cool-As-Heck Cattle Stampede Videos
The cattle stampede is a mainstay of cowboy movies (see both City Slickers and City Slickers 2: The Legend of Curly’s Gold). But what does one actually look like?
4 New Studies are a Buzzkill for Bees
This summer has seen more bad news for bees. Here are four recent sad studies
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