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SHED: A Hub for the Healdsburg Food Community
Healdsburg’s SHED isn’t just an artisanal grocery or a farm supply store – it’s an illustration of the whole food cycle.
The Champagne of Meats: Europe Called, It Wants Its Black Forest Ham Back
Negotiators attempt to force the U.S. to comply with European labeling of Black Forest Ham via current talks for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
Making Flu Vaccines From Tobacco
Tobacco is one of the most reviled plants in the world. What if it could save millions of flu victims?
Magical Sour Cabbage: How Sauerkraut Helped Save the Age of Sail
How 8,000 pounds of sauerkraut helped defeat the scourge of the seas: Scurvy.
America’s Hard Cider Boom Has One Problem: Not Enough Apples
America has developed a taste for hard apple cider. The only problem? Nobody is growing hard cider apples.
Ant Farm: These Insect Cowboys Harvest, Herd and Milk
Ants mastered husbandry way before us – about 50 million years ago – and they still continue farming today.
The Great American Hazelnut Hunt
Americans have grown to love Nutella. The only problem: they can’t grow what they need for it here.
Beautiful Bryophytes: A Q&A with Moss Queen Annie Martin
While moss might not be the obvious first choice for a favorite plant, Annie Martin loves it so much she turned her passion for bryophytes into a business: Mountain Moss Enterprises.
Microbes Will Feed the World, or Why Real Farmers Grow Soil, Not Crops
It’s not just better crops that will feed the world – it’s better microbes.
