Conscious Consumption

A ten-foot-long, Willy Wonka-esque contraption called an optical grape sorter allows one Napa Valley winery to quickly sort through tons of grapes — and leave only perfect wine-making grapes behind.

Take a look at Allmeinde Commongrounds where edgy intellectualism meets rustic rural.

International business lawyer. Fledgling organic grower. Ag-focused politician. Perrine Herve-Gruyer has worn a lot of hats in her career as a modern farmer.

General Mills’ decision to stop using genetically modified organisms to make Cheerios (and, more to the point, its decision to brag about it on cereal boxes) was relatively easy: there’s no such thing as genetically modified oats.

Maybe all it takes to get climate scientists and farmers to collaborate on climate change is a good place to talk about the weather.

How a molecular biologist and horticulturist at the University of Florida is attempting to make mass-produced tomatoes taste better, using the cutting-edge science of how taste and smell interact.

Forget beachfront property: Thanks to climate departure, it’s time to start looking for your dream igloo somewhere in the Arctic Circle.

As of 2011, fewer than 5,000 farm vets were working in the United States. We managed to track down two of them to talk about their work.

A new corporate alliance has ag giant Monsanto looking to the complex network of microbes beneath our feet for their next generation of products.