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What Macho Herbicide Names Tell Us About Fighting Weeds (and Ourselves)
What’s in a name? The ability to turn an anxious farmer into a self-assured head Honcho.
The Side Hustle, Farmer-Edition
For small farmers, making a living from selling food is getting harder and harder. Time to hustle.
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.
