Conscious Consumption

Frank Pearson used the name Captain Starlight a full 15 years before Thomas Alexander Browne wrote the book “Robbery Under Arms,” about a cattle rustler, or duffer, with that appellation. But even so, there is confusion over whether the author actually based his character on Pearson. There are several candidates, including two other “bushrangers,” the term for these types of outlaws who lived both literally and figuratively on the edges of the “civilized” white society.

Cheese makes for great rat bait, but could rats make for great cheese?

Each week we highlight what is seasonal, talk to those who grow it and share a recipe (or two).This week: cranberries.

That Seynab Ali and other Somali Bantu refugees could come to embrace farming as exalted work is surprising given the ethnic minority group’s history. Farming was about the last thing Somali Bantus expected to do after fleeing their country, which collapsed into civil war in 1991 — especially in the U.S., where some 13,000 of them were resettled from Kenyan refugee camps by 2007.

From backwoods county highways to Milwaukee city streets, Wisconsin road crews will be using a new weapon in the war on winter accidents -- cheese brine.

Schulyer and Colby Gail raise pigs in the most natural way possible at Climbing Tree Farm in New Lebanon, New York.

Why colony collapse, Chinese consumer habits, weather patterns in the Midwest, economic sanctions against Iran and even nicotine will mean you’ll pay more for that bag of California almonds.

Thompson & Morgan sells thousands of plants and seeds, from unique hybrids to rare, heirloom varietals. But since it released the TomTato -- a grafted plant that produces both ...

With a charismatic ex-conman leading the way, Cleveland hopes to be home to the world’s first biocellar, which could help extend growing seasons in the wintry Midwest.