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West African Yam Festivals Celebrate Harvest, Community and Life Itself
Across the world’s yam belt, the tuber represents far more than just a side dish.
Meet the Refugee Homesteaders Cultivating Backyards for Food Justice
Drinking Gourd Farms helps people start their own homesteads and experience food freedom.
Spotlight On the Earn-While-You-Learn Model Transforming a Colorado Food Desert
Huerta Urbana’s community members learn about urban farming, while supplying their neighbors with fresh produce and gaining careers in the agriculture industry.
This Teen Farmer Turned a 4-H Project Into a Startup Business
Matias Habib created a bio-pesticide, won an award from 4-H and built a small business—and he’s not even finished high school.
Can Technology Make Colorado’s Peaches Even Juicier?
A new, nondestructive sensor aims to help growers with quality control, harvesting and shipping these time-sensitive fruits.
In U.S. Prisons, Seeds Are Prized Contraband for Prisoners Looking to Grow Their Own Food
With food inside prisons often dreary and repetitive, some incarcerated people are taking their diets into their own hands.
Plants Have Mouths–And They Could Help Agriculture Adapt to Climate Change
A rare case where being a voluntary mouth breather is superior.
From Backyards to Roadsides, How One Group is Protecting the Endangered Juçara Palm
Why chefs and agriculturalists in Brazil are working together to save this lesser-known superfruit.
Is There Such Thing as Good Meat?
In her new book, journalist Chloe Sorvino exposes the monopolies, environmental destruction and human cost woven into the meat industry today and asks: Is there a better way?
