A Dangerous “Superbug” Has Been Found on a U.S. Pig Farm. Should You Worry?
An Ohio State University research team has discovered a multi-drug resistant form of bacteria on a U.S. pig farm. Should you worry? The answer is “maybe.”
Last Word with Chef Tom Colicchio
In the midst of opening his new Manhattan restaurant, Fowler&Wells, the Top Chef judge found time to hit the campaign trail.
The Ability To Cook Plants 15,000 Years Ago May Have Modernized Humans
Humans have been cooking plants for longer than anyone suspected.
The UK Has a Hotline to Bust Food Fraudsters
In the UK food fraudsters are being dimed out thanks to a new national hotline run by the National Food Crime Unit.
We’re Just As Vulnerable To A Dust Bowl Drought As We Were In The 1930s
We must be better able to handle a drought now, right? Right…?
Meet the Modern Farmer: Jeanette Bell
This 72-year-old regularly works well into the evening, tending vegetables and flowers in raised beds.
Modern Farmer’s Best of 2016: Weird Animal Stories
Goat yoga, Flea’s bees, a first mate who happens to be a chicken, and many more.
Tapping Into A Simpler Way of Life
A chef and an artist traded their Brooklyn loft for a remote farm upstate – and built a pretty sweet existence from the ground up.
The Modern Farmer 2016 Favorites: Longreads
The seedy underbelly of mushroom foraging, the dark future after Monsanto/Bayer, the quest to save a freed slave’s farm, and more.
