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Gaining Ground: Q&A with Forrest Pritchard
We talk to Forrest Pritchard about farming, his book Gaining Ground, and how the agricultural landscape in the United States has changed since he started out in the mid-1990s.
Old Time Farm Crime: Fleecing Feathers
Poor Dr. C. J. Sketchley. If it wasn’t the tourists trampling his crops or dogs scaring his ostriches, it was thieves attempting to pluck the birds for their valuable plumage.
13 Turn-of-the-Century Tractor Pics
It's Friday, which means here at Modern Farmer HQ we like to kick back and take a trip through the photography archives of the Library of Congress. From finding sweet-as-heck vint...
In the Wake of Indonesia’s Fires, Criticism of the Palm Oil Industry Smolders
When we last checked in on the palm oil industry, it was busy planning to expand its operations to Africa's Congo Basin. Environmentalists worried that the industry's destructive f...
Now You Can Make Your Own Organic Make-Up
When you consider the lengths people will go to monitor what goes into their body–organic food, sugar-free drink, the list goes on and on–it’s surprising how little awareness there is of what they’re putting onto it.
How Does Your Garden Grow? Easily, With a Nourishmat
Two inventors hope they’ve created a garden so simple a child could grow it.
Meet New York’s Urban Cheesemakers
Meet some of the faces behind the new era of American cheese.
Can Powdered Water Cure Droughts?
Solid Rain is a Mexican product, just introduced to the U.S., which bills itself as a miracle powder that could solve the world’s drought problems. And it may be right.
A Good Soil Test Is Hard to Find
Every day, backyard farmers and urban homesteaders across the country fill little plastic baggies with small samples of soil and ship them off to Massachusetts.
