Conscious Consumption

Seed libraries lend seeds similarly to the way public libraries lend books: members take out seeds for free and plant and tend to their crops. But what members return isn’t a basket of tomatoes, but some seeds from the yield.

Dear Modern Farmer,

When it comes to beef and poultry, pathogens like salmonella and E. coli O157:H7 can be killed by proper handling and cooking in the kitchen. But with lettuce and spinach, which are consumed raw, the foodborne fate is sealed in, literally, on the farm during harvest and processing.

Garden dirt no good? Just don’t have dirt, period? Here’s how to build a straw bale garden

The continuing journals of dairy farmer W.G. Pope from 1941, as illustrated by his great-grandson. This week: a trip to the lake.

We talk to Forrest Pritchard about farming, his book Gaining Ground, and how the agricultural landscape in the United States has changed since he started out in the mid-1990s.

Poor Dr. C. J. Sketchley. If it wasn’t the tourists trampling his crops or dogs scaring his ostriches, it was thieves attempting to pluck the birds for their valuable plumage.

When Mary Ann Fox passed away this winter, she left behind quite a legacy – thousands and thousands of heirloom beans.

It's Friday, which means here at Modern Farmer HQ we like to kick back and take a trip through the photography archives of the Library of Congress. From finding sweet-as-heck vint...