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Farmers: Tell Us About Your Favorite Tools for Summer!
What farm tools can you not live without in the summer?
6 Specialty Gardening Tools to Try This Spring
From berry combs and cherry pickers, to hula hoes and flame weeders, the universe of gardening tools is wide and wild.
Meet the Soil Sisters: Making it as Female Farmers in a Man’s World
A look inside the world of this Wisconsin-based collective of sustainable-agriculture focused women.
The Number of Monarch Butterflies Wintering in Mexico Is Down Again
Monarch butterfly population is measured by acreage at this important overwintering habitat in Mexico. This season’s numbers are down.
Study: Backyard Chicken Regulations Are Not Up to the Task
Chickens: rewarding, but unregulated.
The Real Organic Project: Disgusted With the USDA, Farmers Make Their Own Organic Label
The movement’s original proponents aren’t happy with the direction the National Organic Program has taken the organic label. So they’re coming up with their own.
Study Details How Climate Change Will Affect California Agriculture
A study provides an overview of California’s agricultural industry as it faces climate change.
EPA Shuttering Program That Aids the Study of Chemical Effects on Children
The NCER, which funds research on how pesticides (among other products) effect the health of Americans, has been dissolved.
Virginia Farm Attracts Firestorm for “Resist White Supremacy” Sign
The small, family-run operation chooses to use their business as a political platform and apparently, there are plenty of folks who don’t appreciate their messages of anti-racism and tolerance.
