Conscious Consumption

Everything old is new again, with farmers and eaters rediscovering heritage breeds of chickens. Here’s how to cook a chicken that actually tastes like chicken.

The potato is the world’s third largest food source, behind rice and wheat, and a staple for more than a billion people. And Peru’s International Potato Center is working hard to make sure that potatoes stay with us.

Old and simple things are increasingly cool again, enjoying new, widespread appreciation — including the longbow.

Farmers and investors wait to see how the ultra-fertile fields of the Ukraine will ride out the ongoing political crisis.

Before wheat farmers can turn their crop into your morning piece of toast, they need to get it milled. And some say the milling industry is about to become way too consolidated for comfort — which could lead to you paying a lot more for that toast.

Everyone seems to think that Monsanto is the face of evil. But why?

A farmer outside of Calgary, Alberta talks to us about the trials, tribulations and triumphs of running a table at the farmers market.

It’s hard to believe, but seed planting hasn’t changed much in the last century. But as John Deere and Monsanto move big into precision farming, high-tech solutions may be shaking all that up.

Phosphate mining for fertilizer gave the tiny nation of Nauru the highest GDP per capita in the ’70s. But with phosphate tapped out, an economy on the rocks and a population addicted to imported fast food, can the tiny nation learn to grow again?