Conscious Consumption

Pro surfer Dan Malloy thinks small farmers should be able to grow industrial hemp. The feds think differently.

Before they land in the compost pile, Ron Bigelow’s using hundreds of discarded fruits and veggies to make a statement.

Mike Howerton grew up a seventh-generation farmer, but these days the livestock he tends to are tiny. He’s a beekeeper.

“We’re getting squeezed out,” my mother says, referring to her midsize Ohio farm. And I have no intention of helping solve that problem.

Modern Farmer’s guide to getting in on the California cornucopia – no matter where you live

The biggest beer company in Venezuela is embroiled in an insane war with the country’s president.

He ate grass and everything.

Unlike swarming locusts, periodical cicadas descend upon deciduous trees in the eastern United States for a period of about four or six weeks, on specific years.

A sweet-sour barley beer throws the history of Chinese agriculture into question.