Conscious Consumption

Detroit chefs will soon have a new source of hyper-local produce.

Tasty rare fruits that big ag left behind.

In the fall of 2008, Tom Pinchbeck announced he would be closing his family’s rose farm in Guilford, Connecticut, which had been operating for nearly 80 years. It had been a slow decline for the business due to competition from imported roses from Central and South America, and Equatorial Africa, where they don’t have to spend money on heating greenhouses and where labor is cheap.

Show us how you support local agriculture – and you could win big!

Say hello to Blue Whistler Farm. They’re taking over our Instagram feed this weekend.

After a hard day’s work planting garlic (tips up!) this week’s modern farmers headed inside to catch up on some Modern Farmer reading.

When even the most responsible farming turns out to have an unexpected impact on the environment.

An excerpt from the new book “Gilded Age Murder & Mayhem in the Berkshires.”

She changed her path from policy to planting.