Sustainable Living

There’s a difference between real manure and standard journalistic bullcrap. American and British news agencies should have paid a bit more attention to the former.

China’s hybrid market of state-controlled capitalism often yields weirdness, but the government’s years-long attempt to manipulate the cotton market is particularly odd.

Raw imported meat or fish now bears a label describing where it was raised, slaughtered and processed. Cooked meat doesn't face the same requirement and as a result, chicken from C...

Zack Seckler recently found himself in Africa with some free time on his hands. Instead of photographing from ground level, he took his art to the sky.

A look back at the Dust Bowl, when severe dust storms blew across the prairies of the United States, causing a mass migration of farmers.

When Sarah Ryhanen walks through the fields of flowers on her 107-acre property, the Farm at the World’s End, she may seem as far away from her previous career”‰ – ”‰curating New York City art galleries”‰ – ”‰as one can get.

Chris Cates, who raises livestock in Rising Fawn, Ga., is appalled by the farm bill, which finally passed the House on Wednesday and is expected to sail through the Senate. In a petition he posted earlier at Change.org, Cates complained that the “enormous amount of amendments and taxpayer funded special interests and corporate handouts that have been attached to the Farm Bill are quite disgusting to say the least.”

While the product from Harley Farms Goat Dairy might sound strange those who grew up buying paint from the hardware store, it would make much more sense to anyone living before the...

If there is one word to describe the nearly 1000-page bill worth nearly a trillion dollars, it’s compromise. No one is entirely happy with the results, but just about everybody is happy to have results.