The Community Organizing Effort That Helped Save an Urban Farm in New Orleans
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These Wheels Were Made for Walkin’ — and Quackin’
Merlin the Duck takes his first steps.
Oregon’s Frogsong Farm crafts an approach to growing cannabis that promises to last beyond the current profit-driven craze.
Bare-Root Fruit Trees: Five Reasons You Should Order Them This Winter
The last thing on your mind in February is gardening. But this is prime time to prepare for a very important task: planting fruit trees.
How to Keep the Fox out of the Chicken Coop
It’s all about preventative measures. If they kill once they will kill again. Here are management practices to help stop that from happening.
The Modern Farmer Guide to Slow Tools
Like “slow food”? “Slow tool” revivalists are bringing back the implements needed to produce flavorful, nutritious food on a small scale — and inventing some new ones in the process.
Hong Kong Imports Over 90 Percent of Its Food, But That’s About to Change
Farmers are starting to re-emerge, supported by a restaurant scene that is wise to the benefits of a fresh local food system and a network of farmers’ markets.
The Modern Farmer Ode to Seed Catalogs
There is nothing better on a snowy evening than pulling up a chair by the fire and enjoying a bit of old-fashioned seed porn.
