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Party Like It’s 999: Mead Makes a Comeback
Mead is one of mankind’s oldest forms of booze, but it’s fallen out of fashion. A group of modern mead-makers is hoping to change that.
The Incredible, Edible Bus Stop
In a London neighborhood packed full of low-income housing projects, overrun with gangs, prone to fits of senseless brutality, one bus stop is sprouting a cornucopia of fruits and vegetables.
More and more women are learning the art of butchering, aided by master butchers like Kari Underly.
Wearing Your Waste: The AgBag Puts Agricultural Waste to Good Use
Sick of seeing “drip tape,” the plastic tubing used for short-term drip irrigation, go to waste, Sean Coronis hit upon an idea: weave it into bags. And thus the AgBag was born.
Our semi-regular roundup of interesting agricultural crowdfunding projects.
Killer Coyotes: Can Shepherds Protect Their Flocks?
Coyotes kill over 135,000 sheep a year, and are found in every state in the continental U.S. Can they be contained?
It might come as a surprise, but 96 percent of US crop farms are still family farms. They’ve just gotten much bigger.
For followers of right-to-raw milk issues, the name Alvin Schlangen will no doubt be familiar. Schlangen, a Minnesota egg farmer, underwent a high-profile trial last fall on charge...
The Illustrated Journals of a Dairy Farmer in 1941
The continuing journals of dairy farmer W.G. Pope from 1941, as illustrated by his great-grandson. This week: buying some new wheels.
