Conscious Consumption

When we last checked in on the palm oil industry, it was busy planning to expand its operations to Africa's Congo Basin. Environmentalists worried that the industry's destructive f...

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.