Conscious Consumption

As the public learns more about America’s monumental food waste, and the move to reduce it gathers steam, new edibles made from ingredients that used to end up in compost piles are emerging from pioneering companies.

The bales are also good for stacking into play forts, but this time of year, when nights are still cool and the vegetables of summer are calling to be planted, straw bales suffice ...

According to some scientists, plants are talking all the time. We just need to understand their language.

The victimized farmers refer to the thieves as “rustlers,” which is pretty cool. Unlike the actual rustlers, who are not cool.

At least, the yeast that form the backbone of its brewing has.

Cattle rustling sure, but camel rustling? A pair of Bactrian camels were stolen from a farmer in Missouri.

When you think of a farm, do you think of farmers growing things you can eat? Those are the minority.

Frances Bacon, a pot-bellied pig, has been cut off at the Conquering Hero pub in London.

A tragedy in a metropolis ended up helping to create a device that will be mainly used in a much more rural setting – an upper arm prosthetic specifically designed for use with heavy farm equipment.