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In the early 1940s William George Pope, and his wife Mildred "Moodie” Pope, left Utica, NY and bought a farm. They named it High Acres, and started raising Ayeshire Cattle. Pope ...

A range of U.S. farmers react to Monday’s Supreme Court Monsanto decision.

During World War I and World War II, gardening took on a distinctly martial air. Citizens were encouraged to grow their own backyard produce (dubbed "war gardens" in WWI and "victo...

For years, Colombia was synonymous with great coffee. But in 2013, coffee is at a crossroads.

Architecture students imagine city-based honey factories.

Meet Reed Booth, the self-styled “Killer Bee Guy.”

Since the Reverend Lorenzo Langstroth patented the Langstroth hive in October 1852, the exterior design of bee hives has remained boxy and somewhat staid. Bees build some architect...

When Dr. Karol Mathews met Jasper the beagle, he was in bad shape. The dog had been burned from head to tail in a barn fire and his body was covered in big, red wounds.

So you’ve finally made up your mind to keep bees. But which kind?