Conscious Consumption

A Michigan startup is harnessing it as a feed additive to address the pervasive problem of unnecessary antibiotics use on healthy animals in factory farms.

Here are eight super-cute baby bunny and chick videos for Easter. Nothing else really needs to be said, so we’ll just shut up and let the cuteness speak for itself.

Here’s a short list of breeds that lay colorful eggs that need no dye to tantalize the eye.

It could, very literally, save humanity.

Done right, planting a bed of asparagus is a once-in-a-generation affair. Other than artichokes, capers and rhubarb, asparagus is the only perennial vegetable regularly featured in North American cuisine – it will send up those slender, succulent stalks each spring for decades if it is given a happy home.

A new generation of Jewish farmers and foodies are reinterpreting bland noodle kugels, heavy briskets and other traditional dishes from Bubbe’s Passover table.

The Nourishing Homestead reads as part back-to-the-land missive, part guide to the workings of a full-time family farm, from soil quality to butter production.

Chicken poop: the cause of, and potentially, solution to, Maryland’s pollution problems.

The same stuff used to make Sake, of all things, could show the way to turning waste materials into usable biofuels.