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You can adopt a fruit tree for a growing season — but can you handle 300 to 500 pounds of fruit?
Chinese Farmer Refuses to Move Old Barn; Highway Gets Built Around It
Stand-alone farm on a highway.
Georgia Police Raid Potential Marijuana Farm Only To Find Out It’s Okra
This is what happens when anti-drug authorities don’t eat their gumbo.
An activist hashtag turned immediately insane, revealing just how little we know about organic food.
Alice Waters: The Modern Farmer Q&A
If you had 10 minutes with Alice Waters, what would you ask?
Going Whole Hog: 6 Meat Collectives Around the U.S.
Meat collectives are gaining ground as a way to bring consumers closer to the sources of their food.
There’s a whole lot about this English food writer for us to love.
Potato as Birth Control: Never a Good Idea
“My mom told me that if I didn’t want to get pregnant, I should put a potato up there, and I believed her.”
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