Conscious Consumption

A Canadian inventor wants to clean up agriculture’s ecological damage by turning manure into drinking water.

Fall is a winding down time in the garden, but it’s also a window where you can get a head start on next year’s gardening season. Get ahead of the curve now, so when spring fever hits, your to-do list will be a little shorter and your garden will be a little more orderly, healthy, and productive.

Like a FarmVille-CSA mashup, this Japanese game lets players reap what they sow.

The good news: Organic produce is now certified by the government, widely available at big-box stores, and more affordable than ever. The bad news: See above.

A new study examines the genome to try to track this sinister-sounding rice back to its source.

We’ll be at Field + Supply, a Modern Makers Craft Fair, in High Falls, New York, October 10 and 11.

This week, the folks at SPACE on Ryder Farm, Bay Ridge farmers market vendors, and more awesome people showed off their #iamamodernfarmer pride.

At Brooklyn’s Morbid Anatomy Museum hands-on taxidermy classes fill up with students for whom challenging themselves to skin and pose a deceased animal sounds like fun.

Say hello to Green Duchess Farm in Somerset, New Jersey. They’re taking over Modern Farmer’s Instagram account this weekend.