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?
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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.
Michelin’s massive new tractor tire makes more than just a statement.
We Fought the Emus (and the Emus Won)
In October of 1932, two Australian soldiers went to war. Their enemy: rampaging bands of emus.
