Conscious Consumption

Even the people who make candy corn will tell you it’s nowhere near a universally beloved treat.

There was a time when the worst thing that could happen to your prized pumpkin would be someone smashing it up. These days, though, you might need to put them under lock and key.

Modern Farmer’s harvest column, where we highlight what is seasonal, talk to the growers and share a recipe or two. This week: apples.

How the wonton destruction of pumpkins became a Halloween tradition.

Leonardo Urena grows pumpkins that rival Cinderella’s carriage in size, beets bigger than your ten-year-old’s head and gourds that stretch to over ten feet in length.

Human cultures have long asked the skies for rain, but we’ve gotten scientific about it in the last 200 years.

We tell you what each USDA beef grade means, from prime to cutter meat, and how to cook it (or if you even should).

The continuing journals of dairy farmer W.G. Pope from 1941, as illustrated by his great-grandson. This week: husking corn.

There is a growing backlash against pumpkin spice everything – but the public still slurps it up.