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Why Lettuce Keeps Making Us Sick
When it comes to beef and poultry, pathogens like salmonella and E. coli O157:H7 can be killed by proper handling and cooking in the kitchen. But with lettuce and spinach, which are consumed raw, the foodborne fate is sealed in, literally, on the farm during harvest and processing.
How to Build a Straw Bale Garden
Garden dirt no good? Just don’t have dirt, period? Here’s how to build a straw bale garden
The Illustrated Journals of a Dairy Farmer in 1941
The continuing journals of dairy farmer W.G. Pope from 1941, as illustrated by his great-grandson. This week: a trip to the lake.
Gaining Ground: Q&A with Forrest Pritchard
We talk to Forrest Pritchard about farming, his book Gaining Ground, and how the agricultural landscape in the United States has changed since he started out in the mid-1990s.
Old Time Farm Crime: Fleecing Feathers
Poor Dr. C. J. Sketchley. If it wasn’t the tourists trampling his crops or dogs scaring his ostriches, it was thieves attempting to pluck the birds for their valuable plumage.
When Mary Ann Fox passed away this winter, she left behind quite a legacy – thousands and thousands of heirloom beans.
13 Turn-of-the-Century Tractor Pics
It's Friday, which means here at Modern Farmer HQ we like to kick back and take a trip through the photography archives of the Library of Congress. From finding sweet-as-heck vint...
In the Wake of Indonesia’s Fires, Criticism of the Palm Oil Industry Smolders
When we last checked in on the palm oil industry, it was busy planning to expand its operations to Africa's Congo Basin. Environmentalists worried that the industry's destructive f...
