Conscious Consumption

When you consider the lengths people will go to monitor what goes into their body–organic food, sugar-free drink, the list goes on and on–it’s surprising how little awareness there is of what they’re putting onto it.

Two inventors hope they’ve created a garden so simple a child could grow it.

Meet some of the faces behind the new era of American cheese.

Scheibe has done so since January 1978, when she and her husband, Claire, decided to do something with all of the farm toys they'd been buying as part of the antiques business they...

Solid Rain is a Mexican product, just introduced to the U.S., which bills itself as a miracle powder that could solve the world’s drought problems. And it may be right.

Every day, backyard farmers and urban homesteaders across the country fill little plastic baggies with small samples of soil and ship them off to Massachusetts.

Meet The Farmery, an all-in-one greenhouse and local food mart that will offer urbanites the opportunity to harvest their favorite greens on the spot.

A Kickstarter for global agriculture.

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