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In Seattle’s Beacon Hill Neighborhood, a Garden of Eden Is Growing

Seattle will soon be home to the Beacon Food Forest, a seven-acre woodland comprised of edible trees, perennials, annuals and shrubs.

by Rebecca Flint Marx
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Dirt-Free Farming: Will Hydroponics (Finally) Take Off?

The hydroponic revolution has been poised to change farming for over 70 years. When will it actually happen?

by Eric Siegel
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The Vanishing Farm Veterinarian

Where have all of the farm vets gone?

by Rose Garrett
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A Modern Farmer in Congress

By the time Chellie Pingree was elected to represent Maine’s 1st district in the United States House of Representatives in 2008, she had already amassed more than thirty years of farming experience in the state.

by Tom Wolf
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Meal Worms: Apartment Bug Farm Is Big Business

Harman Johar, a recent graduate of the University of Georgia Athens, and just a regula guy — except he has a few extra thousand roommates. And he just scored $2 million to begin his organic bug business.

by Andre Gallant
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The Inside Story of a “Juror Revolt” in Amish Raw Milk Trial

The criminal misdemeanor trial of Wisconsin raw milk farmer Vernon Hershberger that drew national media attention ended more than two weeks ago, but Michele Bollfrass-Hopp, one of the jurors in the case, has been unable to get it out of her mind.

by David Gumpert
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Mobile Poultry Slaughter: As Easy as One, Two, Three

Love eating chicken? Hate the idea of factory farming? Want to do something about it? Ali Berlow is here to help.

by Rebecca Flint Marx
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What Macho Herbicide Names Tell Us About Fighting Weeds (and Ourselves)

What’s in a name? The ability to turn an anxious farmer into a self-assured head Honcho.

by Rose Garrett
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The Side Hustle, Farmer-Edition

For small farmers, making a living from selling food is getting harder and harder. Time to hustle.

by Twilight Greenaway
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