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Halloween’s Agricultural Roots
Halloween’s ancient roots are as much about agriculture as scary costumes and jack-o-lanterns. Maybe this year you should dress as a zombie farmer to celebrate this holiday’s agrarian past.
Size Isn’t Everything. Here’s a Farm That Fits in Your Kitchen
The key to Nanofarm, which is smaller than a mini-fridge, are its patent-pending plant pads, which are made out of multiple layers of fabric and paper. The pads contain the seeds ...
Fast Food Labeling May Not Work At All, Finds Study
You won’t believe how many customers don’t even see the info.
This Farm Uses Only Sun and Seawater to Grow Food
In Australia, a new indoor farm is growing lots and lots of tomatoes with nothing more than solar power, seawater, and coconut husks (oh, and a massive amount of infrastructure costs, as well).
New York Governor Urged To Pass Farm-To-Food-Bank Bill
Give farmers a tax break to donate to food banks!
Could The US’s First Industrial Hemp Farms Be On Native American Land?
Hemp farming could be coming to Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona.
Shock, Rescue, Recovery: North Carolina Farmers Deal With Storm Loss
"We've got some areas where whole counties were underwater because of riverine flooding and where farmers lost not just their crops, but their homes and their equipment,” Brian L...
New Wave: Synthetic-Pesticide Detectors Will Soon Be Here
The future isn’t here in the sense of you getting your own flying car, but at least easy to use pesticide detectors are on the way.
