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Sisters Lucy and Emma Reeves, born and raised on English country farms, started a dating website for ‘anybody who doesn’t mind a bit of mud.’

Want to enrage a soil scientist? Call it “dirt.”

Farming is incredibly difficult and often dangerous work. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, close to 500 farmers and farmworkers lost their lives in 2010...

Fifty years ago, China’s most pressing problem was how to feed its people. Now, the big worry is whether its food will make people sick.

Chilihead fanatics are locked in a race to cultivate the world’s hottest pepper.

Inspired by permaculture ideas and instigated by the reality of peak oil and global warming, two Brits established the Transition Network in 2005 to help individuals “transition” away from fossil fuel-dependent systems.

Choosing the right breed of chicken is a lot like dating. Well, not really, but there are serious matters of compatibility at stake and hundreds of breeds to choose from. Before making a commitment, take a moment to consider your “type.”

Patrick Holden was a naive hippie in the ’70s when he started Bwlchwernen Fawr – now the oldest established organic dairy farm in Wales. Fourty years later, Holden asks the question: How can we be more accountable?

In this age of Purell, the connection between excrement and nourishment may seem too disgusting to ponder. But there’s no denying it – poop is staging a comeback.