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Study: Surprisingly Smart Plants Are Capable of Taking Calculated Gambles

These pea plants proved not so pea-brained. Well, they don’t actually have brains, but you know what we mean.

by Dan Nosowitz
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Meet the Modern Farmers: Ruth and Lori Babcock

The two were harboring their own corporate-escape fantasies when they met in the mid-1990s while working at a software company.

by Miranda Silva
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Cropped: How to Grow Microgreens

Go from sowing to selling in less than a month with these tiny, trendy leaves.

by Jenny Flores
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Farmers, Foresters, and Fishermen Have the Highest Suicide Rate of Any Profession

Why is farming such a hard profession, and what can be done to change that?

by Dan Nosowitz
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Five-Minute Mentor: Jimmy Williams

A fifth-generation seed saver, this Los Angeles kitchen-garden guru distills the lessons learned from some 70 years spent tending heirloom edibles.

by Andrew Amelinckx
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Q&A: Katie Spring from Good Heart Farmstead

Katie Spring admits it might have been a crazy idea to start a family and a farm at the same time, but three years later both are doing just fine.

by Andrew Amelinckx
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Food, Farming & the 2016 Election: A Conversation with Marion Nestle

Part one of our new series following food policy on the campaign trail.

by Brian Barth
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Meet the Modern Farmer: Joseph Brinkley

"I didn't even drink wine until I moved to California,” admits Joseph Brinkley, who farmed vegetables in Kentucky and his native Virginia before joining Bonterra as a vineyard ma...

by Sara Morrow
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What Brexit Could Mean for UK Farmers

It could result in a potential shortage of farm labor to a loss of subsidies for farmers already near the brink.

by Andrew Amelinckx
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