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At Fountain House Farm, members with mental illness recover and gain new skills, find jobs, and make lasting friendships.

And it doesn’t make up for downward trending diversity in other regions.

The golfer may have changed Peru’s alpaca population forever, thanks to his wildly-popular cardigans.

Having gone from boom to bust seven years ago, alpacas are poised to once again take the country by storm. (And is it any wonder?)

Fair trade? Direct trade? Shade grown? Here’s what it all means, and which of it is nonsense. (Spoiler: a lot of it is nonsense.)

Health enthusiasts happily shell out hundreds of dollars each year for herbal products of every variety, from lavender salt scrubs for the bath to peppermint flea sprays for their pets. Those purchases support the $100 billion global market for herbal supplements and remedies, but a majority of those products—or at least close approximations of them—can be made at home from plants growing in your own garden or collected from a nearby natural area.

Also: In Texas, kids eat something called a “sunbutter sandwich.” They do not appear to like it very much.

If you don’t “Shake It Off” (meaning move quickly) you may never get “Out of the Woods” (“woods” = corn) and have to “Stay” for “22” (“too, too”) long!

A new report on the global use of antibiotics and the rise of antibacterial-resistant bacteria is out today and the news isn’t good.