Conscious Consumption

How to choose the right water source for your farm or garden

A Southern honey company teaches schoolchildren about bees (birds not included).

Bring on sweet summertime! This month’s events offer opportunities to get some serious ag-related education, try your hand at beekeeping and natural dyeing, and eat food you can feel good about.

Jess Piskor met Abra Berens 10 years ago while they were serving bowls of matzo-ball soup and pastrami sandwiches at Ann Arbor's legendary Zingerman's deli. At the time, Piskor hap...

In response to this, Clif Bar and Organic Valley recently teamed up to fund the first endowed chair focused exclusively on organic research.The first of its kind, this chair was re...

These crops refuse to be tamed. Yet they remain delicious.

The challenges facing novice farmers can, by all accounts, be downright daunting: deciding whether to lease or buy land, weighing capital investments in equipment, worrying about w...

Back at the end of May, wheat prices were down 2.4 percent, and after the USDA report, they plummeted another 3.5 percent. What’s going on here?

The United States Supreme Court has handed down some major decisions recently; the two biggest were granting the right for same-sex couples to marry anywhere in the country, and the ruling in favor of Obamacare. Besides these historic decisions, there was another that’s being hailed as important for property rights and the raisin industry.