Sustainable Living

Winter, the joyous season of armchair gardening.

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.

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.

As the organic movement takes off, two Brazilian entrepreneurs concoct a CSA remix.

“Keep those perfluoroalkyl substituted phosphate ester acids out of our pizza!” says the FDA. (Paraphrased.)

The folks at Caromont Farm want their baby goats to be extra warm this season.

This pioneering vegetable grower practically invented the phrase “farm-to-table” three decades ago.

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.