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Blogging the Farm: The New Rural Writers and Their Urban Fans
As the temperatures plummeted to nearly 25 below zero, the sky scuffed black, Sylvia Burgos Toftness climbed into warm clothing, thick gloves, lined overalls and a hooded sweatshir...
Ron Harman never intended to build the biggest farm tractor in the world. But sometimes things just work out that way.
Old Time Farm Crime: The Man Behind Captain Starlight, Australia’s Most Famous Cattle Thief
Frank Pearson used the name Captain Starlight a full 15 years before Thomas Alexander Browne wrote the book “Robbery Under Arms,” about a cattle rustler, or duffer, with that appellation. But even so, there is confusion over whether the author actually based his character on Pearson. There are several candidates, including two other “bushrangers,” the term for these types of outlaws who lived both literally and figuratively on the edges of the “civilized” white society.
Rat Cheese: Internet Hoax or Future Delicacy?
Cheese makes for great rat bait, but could rats make for great cheese?
Each week we highlight what is seasonal, talk to those who grow it and share a recipe (or two).This week: cranberries.
Somali Farmers Find a New Home in Maine
That Seynab Ali and other Somali Bantu refugees could come to embrace farming as exalted work is surprising given the ethnic minority group’s history. Farming was about the last thing Somali Bantus expected to do after fleeing their country, which collapsed into civil war in 1991 — especially in the U.S., where some 13,000 of them were resettled from Kenyan refugee camps by 2007.
Wisconsin’s Weapon for Icy Roads: Cheese Brine!
From backwoods county highways to Milwaukee city streets, Wisconsin road crews will be using a new weapon in the war on winter accidents -- cheese brine.
Hog Wild: Raising Instinctual Pork
Schulyer and Colby Gail raise pigs in the most natural way possible at Climbing Tree Farm in New Lebanon, New York.
Why Disappearing Bees Mean You’ll Pay More for Almonds
Why colony collapse, Chinese consumer habits, weather patterns in the Midwest, economic sanctions against Iran and even nicotine will mean you’ll pay more for that bag of California almonds.
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