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21 Pictures of Hands Gently Cupping Dirt

Stock photography shows us how much plants enjoy being softly cradled.

by Jake Swearingen
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Essay: In Defense of Rural

Growing up on that farm inculcated in me a need for space, isolation, and silence, and gave me room to grow strange and introspective.

by Tim Kreider
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Building a Better Bug Trap

If you build a better bug trap, farmers will beat a path to your door.

by Ariel Schwartz
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Scenes From a Pot Farmers’ Market

Northern California’s first pot farmers’ market is like most other farmers’ markets, except you buy weed instead of kale and there’s the possibility you’ll go to prison ”“ which gives visits to the Organicann Harvest Market in Sonoma County a bit of an edge.

by David Downs
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This Tractor Drives Itself

If everything works out, self-driving tractors will be rolling off the assembly line by September.

by Jesse Hirsch
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Farm-to-Text

How do you connect 270,000 growers in 38 countries, most of whom do not have access to the Internet? Look to the humble text message.

by Reyhan Harmanci
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Ag-Gag Laws: State of the States

Instead of a unified national piece of legislation, ag-gag laws are splintered across the land. Each one has its own quirks.

by Jesse Hirsch
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How to Grow a Cocktail

What do you see when you walk into a liquor store? If you’re nature writer Amy Stewart, you see “the world’s most exotic botanical garden, the sort of strange and overgrown conservatory we only encounter in our dreams.”

by Jeanne Carstensen
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Meet the Micro-Malts

After Prohibition, the tradition of locally grown and sourced malt died out in America, even for craft brewers. But a small band of micro-malters aim to change all that.

by Lessley Anderson
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