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Why Coffee Pooped Out of a Brazilian Bird Sells For Big Bucks
The Jacu bird has an excellent eye for coffee beans — which makes its excrement some of the most expensive coffee in the world.
House of Steel: A Modern Farmhouse in South Africa
After stints in Cape Town and San Francisco, Jakoba and Cornelis Dumas – a “part-time accountant, part-time mother,” 34, and an industrial designer specializing in furniture, 35, respectively – decided it was time to settle down. Their dream? To build a house at Jacobsdal, the wine farm on the edge of Stellenbosch, South Africa, where Cornelis grew up.
7 Tips for Finding the Perfect Pumpkin
Luckily, Joy Barlogio of Jack Creek Farms knows a thing or two about picking the best fruit among the dry vines. Her family has 115 years of pumpkin growing experience and she buil...
17 Great Works of Vintage Farm Art
Thanks to J. Paul Getty Museum’s new platform for open source material, OpenContent, we’ve been able to dig these gems up from the past.
On the fertile mediterranean island of Salina, capers are preserved the old-fashioned way, a painstaking process that involves packing them in salt.
Farming in the Arctic: It Can Be Done
The frozen tundra of the Arctic is experiencing something of an agriculture boom.
Pearl of a Deal: Meet the Oyster CSA
Longtime local aquafarmer and restaurateur, Luc Chamberland has launched what may be California’s first oyster CSA, Community Supported Aquaculture. Same concept as the age-old cardboard veggie box, except instead of parsnips and eggplant, you get an ice-packed cooler full of briny, sweet Pacifics – and the opportunity, as Chamberland puts it, “to get mud between your toes.”
Farm Pop: “Children of the Corn” and Rural Horror
On the making of “Children of the Corn” and why rural horror works.
Why Legalized Hemp Will Not Be a Miracle Crop
Demand for hemp isn’t as high as hemp’s loudest proponents would have it — all you have to do is look at countries where it’s legal.
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