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Love Chickens But Hate Commitment? Try Renting
Everyone loves a summer chicken. But come February, when you're schlepping food and water across the snowy yard, getting your PJs wet, cursing your kids who promised to help, and n...
How to Talk About Soil at a Dinner Party
It’s spring and you want to talk about soil. But how? Here’s a glossary of dirty talking points to get you chatting up a storm at your next soireé.
The Illustrated Journals of a Dairy Farmer in 1941
In the early 1940s William George Pope, and his wife Mildred "Moodie” Pope, left Utica, NY and bought a farm. They named it High Acres, and started raising Ayeshire Cattle. Pope ...
Global Guide to Local Food: In De Wulf
After years of studying modern cuisine at restaurants like Oud Sluis in the Netherlands and Restaurant Picasso in Westouter, Belgium, chef Kobe Desramaults returned to In De Wulf, ...
Global Guide to Local Food: Le Kolo
Parisians in the culinary know speak of vegetable farmer Asafumi Yamashita in venerated tones.
Global Guide to Local Food: American Academy in Rome
Today, the teaching kitchen at the prestigious community of artists and scholars is a tribute to seasonal Italian cooking.
West Fertilizer Company Plant Investigation Begins in Earnest
Fires have finally stopped burning at the massive explosion site of the West Fertilizer Co., according to local officials at a press conference yesterday. Last Wednesday’s blast, which registered on the magnitude of a 2.1-level earthquake, took the lives of at least 14 and injured 200 others.
27 Pictures of Plants Growing Out of a Pile of Coins
A handy gardening tip, courtesy of stock photography: your pocket change is the perfect medium for growing plants.
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