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What Maine Can Teach the Rest of the Country About Farming
Forget Stephen King and lobster rolls. The really impressive thing about Maine? Farms are being started at a rate nearly four times faster than the national average and it boasts one of the highest organic-to-conventional-farm ratios in the United States.
Pigweed in the Cotton: A ‘Superweed’ Invades Georgia
Stanley Culpepper has spent most of the last decade fighting a monster.
The Brides Love the Barns: A Q&A with I Love Farm Weddings
It was only a matter of time before brides and barns got together. It seems like every wedding season seems to include at lease one farm-based fete invite, doesn’t it?
Two years ago, a British ex-pat started a modest farmer’s market in Dubai, under the shadow of the world’s tallest building. With just three vendors, it was virtually the only place to buy local produce in the entire city.
5 Public Libraries That Have Gone to Seed (Libraries)
Seed libraries lend seeds similarly to the way public libraries lend books: members take out seeds for free and plant and tend to their crops. But what members return isn’t a basket of tomatoes, but some seeds from the yield.
Dear Modern Farmer: Will My Chicken Coop Be Legal?
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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.
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