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Consumption
Wheatgrass: Superfood or Just Plain Ol’ Wheat?
Is marketing wheatgrass as a health-food product a cynical ploy to move more wheat seed? Or is the leaf, and not the kernel of wheat, the part of the plant we should all be consuming for a long happy life?
5 Things I Learned the Hard Way About Raising Goats
Sex-crazed and trouble-prone, there’s never a dull moment with goats around.
Iowa Cartoonist Fired, He Says, For Insulting Big Ag CEOs
Seems like somebody at Monsanto, DuPont Pioneer, and/or John Deere didn’t find his cartoon funny.
Q&A: Chad Bishop of Greenbrier Farms
For this South Carolina farmer, making a living from the land takes a village.
Brooklyn’s Prospect Park’s New Staff Members Are Goats
Welcome to our fine borough, goat friends.
Caught in the Middle: Farmers Seek a New and Improved GMO Debate
Meet the farmers, both conventional and organic, seeking a truce in agriculture’s most vicious battleground.
Meet The Vegetable: Celtuce, a Mutant and Delicious Lettuce
Why this weird Chinese vegetable should earn your respect.
From the Ashes: 3 Companies That’ll Turn Cremains into a Tree
Just because you’re dead doesn’t mean you should stop caring about the Earth.
Canadian Restaurant Sources Humane Beef From United States, Infuriates Canadians
“How dare you????” holler many Canadians, not as politely as you’d expect.
