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Jan Barley is a Reiki practitioner; when she touches your horse, she gets results.
Cape Anne Fresh Catch, the country’s largest community supported fishery, does essentially the same thing as your typical CSA, but with fish.
Will a Sheep’s Wool Grow Forever?
If a sheep is left unshorn, will its wool grow forever? Is that healthy? Is this a glitch in the (wooly) fabric of evolution?
Dirty Birds: Does Pastured Poultry Mean More Pathogens?
While it's still a small market, pastured poultry -- a method of raising poultry on open pastureland -- has flourished in recent years as consumer demand for humanely-raised, antib...
Pig Tech: Improving Pork’s Future
In a quest to eliminate gestation crates, researches believe they’ve cracked the code that may make open pens a widespread reality for swine across the country.
5 Farm Museums that Preserve the Past and Educate the Future
"Everyday there's another story about people not understanding the basics of food,” said Livermore.
Dear Modern Farmer: What In the Name of God Is Happening to My Apples?
Dear Modern Farmer, I’ve started to notice these little spots on the side of my apples, and a crumbling red-brown gooey substance coming out of them. What’s the deal?
Kenya’s Best and Only Reality Show for Struggling Farms
Shamba Shape Up is a wildly popular reality show, with upwards of 10 million weekly viewers across Africa. Each week, two hosts cheerily descend on a struggling farm. They look for...
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: The True Cost of our Produce
Today’s pickers – migrant farm workers picking produce across the country – are Mexican immigrants, many of them indigenous peoples. Author Seth M. Holmes spent years with these peoples while working on his book.
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