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Photo Essay: Goats in Sweaters
In India, around the Eid al-Adha festival, goats wear sweaters. Beautiful, fashionable sweaters.
The Man Who Loved Pigeons: Rémy Anézo and Les Pigeons De Mesquer
One man’s quest to raise the highest quality pigeons France has ever seen.
Sophisticated, Large-Scale Thefts Plague California’s Nut Industry
Big-time nut heists are on the rise following a spike in the wholesale price of nuts.
Ron Harman never intended to build the biggest farm tractor in the world. But sometimes things just work out that way.
Rat Cheese: Internet Hoax or Future Delicacy?
Cheese makes for great rat bait, but could rats make for great cheese?
Each week we highlight what is seasonal, talk to those who grow it and share a recipe (or two).This week: cranberries.
Somali Farmers Find a New Home in Maine
That Seynab Ali and other Somali Bantu refugees could come to embrace farming as exalted work is surprising given the ethnic minority group’s history. Farming was about the last thing Somali Bantus expected to do after fleeing their country, which collapsed into civil war in 1991 — especially in the U.S., where some 13,000 of them were resettled from Kenyan refugee camps by 2007.
Wisconsin’s Weapon for Icy Roads: Cheese Brine!
From backwoods county highways to Milwaukee city streets, Wisconsin road crews will be using a new weapon in the war on winter accidents -- cheese brine.
