Conscious Consumption

We get it: life is fast, life is busy, and you can’t always catch the coolest stories the first time around. We believe in second chances. Check out this week’s best farm and food stories:

Situated amid the beautiful and history-laden streets of Florence there’s a secure pharmaceutical facility where medical marijuana is being grown by an organization one wouldn’t typically associate with either farming or cannabis: The Italian Army.

Here are some cute and funny farm animal videos from around the web featuring past Modern Farmer cover animals. The new issue comes out next month, and if you take a guess at which animal will be on the cover, you could win a farm-fresh prize and an Overstock.com gift card!

To help your little tomato seedlings along, there are two things you need to do before you transplant them.

Farmer and photographer Matthew Benson, a fierce proponent of organic farming, gives us an intimate window into Stonegate Farm in Balmville, New York, his three-acre organic operat...

The latest incident took place early last week about 45 minutes north of Elko, in the northeastern part of the state. A cow was shot to death at close range, according to Flint Wri...

A perfect way to get a reliable source of raw goat’s milk without breaking any laws or having to, you know, own a goat.

While many of us pile our plates with colorful farm-fresh foods in order to reap their many rewards, these same foods offer healthful benefits when used to both treat and prevent m...

Do you expect an elk? Would it behoove us to feature a bison? How about an itty bitty barn kitty?