Sustainable Living

Meet The Farmery, an all-in-one greenhouse and local food mart that will offer urbanites the opportunity to harvest their favorite greens on the spot.

A Kickstarter for global agriculture.

Drones aren’t just for spying and unmanned warfare. Farmers are finding uses for herding cattle, spraying pesticides and a host of other farm chores.

As Andrea Wulf writes in her book Founding Gardeners, even in the midst of the Revolutionary War, George Washington remained preoccupied with the progress of his new garden at Moun...

Between drought and a decrease in per capita beef consumption, the past few years have been challenging ones for cattle farmers. It’s also translated into higher costs for the leather industry.

When most people think about palm oil, if they think about it at all, they think of it as just one of the obscure and often unpronounceable ingredients printed on packages of proce...

It’s huge, it’s slimy, and it’s the “single greatest threat to Florida agriculture.” Meet the giant African Land Snail.

When Ned Lewis started hanging out at the Chicago Lights Urban Farm at nine years old, he found the labor to be beneath him. "I thought it was slave work" Lewis says.

You wouldn’t have babies and not prepare your house for them. Same goes for chickens in your garden.