Sustainable Living

At The Clinic in South Denver, a sign greeted visitors reading: “We are currently out of recreational cannabis. Please check back tomorrow. Sorry for the inconvenience.”

Urine contains nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium — essential plant nutrients that are usually mined from the earth or the air for agricultural use. The Rich Earth Institute is collecting thousands of gallons of urine, hoping to make potentially harmful waste substance into a boon for crop production.

A ten-foot-long, Willy Wonka-esque contraption called an optical grape sorter allows one Napa Valley winery to quickly sort through tons of grapes — and leave only perfect wine-making grapes behind.

International business lawyer. Fledgling organic grower. Ag-focused politician. Perrine Herve-Gruyer has worn a lot of hats in her career as a modern farmer.

General Mills’ decision to stop using genetically modified organisms to make Cheerios (and, more to the point, its decision to brag about it on cereal boxes) was relatively easy: there’s no such thing as genetically modified oats.

How a molecular biologist and horticulturist at the University of Florida is attempting to make mass-produced tomatoes taste better, using the cutting-edge science of how taste and smell interact.

A new corporate alliance has ag giant Monsanto looking to the complex network of microbes beneath our feet for their next generation of products.

Every year, thousands of people flock to see a bull race called The Karapan Sapi. This is not your average bull race.

Though carbon dioxide is the more common greenhouse gas, methane is 23 times as harmful — and cow flatulence is one of its main sources. Here are six things we could do to help ease cow digestion.