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At Home with Jacob and Alissa Hessler of Urban Exodus
How a successful Seattle PR executive fell hard for a Brooklyn photographer with real estate in remote Maine, and traded city sophistication for 18 rugged New England acres that incubated her addictive, ag-centric website.
This week’s winner is renovating a 200-year-old Maine farm with her partner.
Meet the Modern Farmer: Ryan Eddinger
Not everything should be grown hydroponically, suggests Ryan Eddinger. His water-grown lettuces are a sure exception, and his top chef customers are grateful for their taste.
Fresh, Local, On-Demand, and Cheap: A Brazilian Recipe for Change
As the organic movement takes off, two Brazilian entrepreneurs concoct a CSA remix.
FDA Takes Steps To Ban Chemicals In Pizza Boxes
“Keep those perfluoroalkyl substituted phosphate ester acids out of our pizza!” says the FDA. (Paraphrased.)
Virginia Farm Invites People to Cuddle Goats; Everyone Applies
The folks at Caromont Farm want their baby goats to be extra warm this season.
Five-Minute Mentor: Farmer Lee Jones of Chef’s Garden
This pioneering vegetable grower practically invented the phrase “farm-to-table” three decades ago.
Video: American Farmers are Rapidly Retiring. Who Will Succeed Them?
In the next 25 years, we’ll need more than 700,000 new farmers – but in the last five, the population’s increased by only 1,220.
