Spotlight On One Texas School District Revolutionizing School Lunch
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Behold: The Lean, Green Food-Eating Machine
Meet the Eco-Safe Food Digester, a stainless-steel machine that uses microorganisms to break down large volumes of food by aerobic digestion — just like your stomach.
Dear Modern Farmer: Can I Legally Grow Food in My Front Yard?
Dear Modern Farmer: Can I legally grow food in my front yard?
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: a sale.
Will the Senate Help Fund Food Stamps at Farmers Markets?
Double Up Food Bucks is a pilot program in Michigan that effectively doubles the spending power for low-income families using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) dolla...
A Primer for the Modern (Pot) Farmer
With the potential of legal marijuana around the corner, there’s no shortage of sites offering to help the wannabe homegrower.
CSAs, or “Community Supported Agriculture,” used to mean that you’d get a box of food from a farmer whom you knew. Not so much anymore.
The Week in Farm Crime: Purloined Pork, Kidnapped Chicks, and Father-Son Cattle Rustlers
Modern Farmer's semi-irregular look at agricultural malfeasance from around the world.
Fluffy Cows and Four Other Boutique Farm Breeds
The fluffy cow. It's not the name of a Monty Python skit. It's the latest breed of cattle to go viral on the Internet (see also: the Emo Cow of the late aughts). After someone post...
After the Tornado, Farm Cleanup Can Take Years
When an EF4-strength tornado hit Northern Kentucky last year, a horrific piece of debris landed on Dave and Regena List’s dairy farm: a massive dump truck, and its dead driver.
