Vaccine Requirements Unsettle Some Farmers Who Serve on USDA Committees
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Global warming will dictate the world’s salad bar in the future – and scientists are rushing to prepare our produce. Julia Scott meets some heat-resistant lettuce varieties in El Centro, California.
Goat Week ended last Friday, and we're finally ready to celebrate other animals again. All thanks to the Library of Congress, for giving us a bumper crop of vintage farm horses doi...
From Factory Farm to Organic Icon: Inside White Oak Pastures
A look at one of America’s most interesting farms.
Beyond ‘Harvest Moon’: Farmers Tell Us What They’re Listening to in the Fields
What are farmers listening to this fall?
Farmivore: Going Grass-Fed, Profits Be Damned
Grass-fed beef is environmentally friendly, fairly rare and neither the price nor the taste appeal to many Americans, raised on marbled, corn-fed steaks. What’s a sustainably-minded restaurant to do?
Delicata Squash: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butternut
Try delicata, an heirloom squash experiencing a dramatic revival thanks to the richer flavor and softer skin of a productive variety that first hit seed markets about a decade ago.
Modern Farmer Celebrity Vegetable Chart
Why Lena Dunham is like cilantro, Gwyneth Paltrow is like kale, and James Franco is like corn: it’s our our celebrity veg chart.
