Conscious Consumption

Alaska’s new gold rush stems from beautiful peony flowers — ones that people will delay weddings over.

Cattle ticks, and the government cowboys who set out to eradicate them.

Meet this week’s guest Instagrammers, the grass-fed cattle farmers at Summerfield Farms in Summerfield, North Carolina.

Celebs prep for the apocalypse, too. Here’s what they’d take into their bunkers.

A 10-year-old girl has suffered a severe allergic reaction to a pesticide used on the fruit that went into her slice of blueberry pie.

Are “jellyballs” the next sushi?

Before dropping it all and moving to the country to start the farm of your dreams, read this.

Striking photographs of rural shepherds around the world.

Rounding off cow week with 9 vintage photos of our bovine friends.