Conscious Consumption

Wait a second: will we urban Northeasterners someday have fresh produce in the winter?

Clover has many benefits for eco-conscious farmers and gardeners.

We need to go back to the old country to understand how cabbage became entwined with Irish culinary history.

Welcome to the (Ag)gregator, where you’ll find a daily offering of food and farm related stories from around the Web. Today, we learn about a new study that finds light pollution affects plant growth; look at an Australian company that sells whole steers to rich Chinese; and two separate lawsuits, one in Virginia about the definition of agriculture, and the other down the road in D.C. at the U.S. Supreme Court, which concerns California’s raisin industry. There’s also a bonus story! It’s an update on Two Face the Australian steer.

Turns out you can buy cannabis treats for your pet. Well, you used to be able to, at least.

Could this strange purple varietal be Kenya’s first big high-end tea?

This blog post refuses to encourage the rise of antibiotic resistance.

Growing tomatoes from seed isn’t hard, but there are a few things to be aware of.

Welcome to the (Ag)gregator, where you’ll find a daily offering of food and farm related stories from around the Web. Today, we hold our nose at the thousands of gallons of manure that spilled across a rural community in Kalamazoo County, Michigan; gawk at a two-headed bull that was recently sold at auction in Australia; look into a standoff between a British millionaire and a group of activist farmers who are squatting on his land; and learn about vigilantes in India freeing cattle headed for slaughter in Bangladesh.