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The Occupy Movement’s Ongoing Obsession with the Farm
If Monday morning’s police raid on the Occupy the Farm encampment in Northern California was supposed to crush morale, it was a failure.
A lobby group says France is Europe’s number one consumer of pesticides.
The Illustrated Journals of a Dairy Farmer in 1941
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 ...
Farmers React to Monsanto Seed Ruling
A range of U.S. farmers react to Monday’s Supreme Court Monsanto decision.
12 Fantastic Victory Garden Posters
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...
Colombian Coffee at the Crossroads
For years, Colombia was synonymous with great coffee. But in 2013, coffee is at a crossroads.
Five High-Design Urban Beehives
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...
