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I wanted to grow pot to consume it more thoughtfully, receiving it as a reward for my efforts rather than at my leisure. I wanted to live off the land: to get high on my own supply.

When farmers experience crop lose due to extreme weather, crop insurance is there to help them out. In many ways, the insurance that farmers buy is not unlike car, home or health i...

Golden Rice is a genetically modified curveball, created to remedy Vitamin A deficiency among the world’s poorest souls.

The continuing journals of dairy farmer W.G. Pope from 1941, as illustrated by his great-grandson. This week: a lost child, found.

Like barn dances and the Farmer's Almanac, the FFA (Future Farmers of America) is an old-timey tradition that still exists in the age of lab-grown meat and robot milkers. With a un...

It all comes down to this. The start of the market lamb show at the Rockingham County Fair in Virginia is just moments away, and Kaylyn Beach, 15, is in the pen with her lambs, making final primps and adjustments before entering the show ring.

It is easier to think of rabbit butchering day as pate-making day.

Crop circles, talking pigs, hearing voices in the field--the things Hollywood farmers have to put up with!

Seattle Tilth, an organization that advocates and teaches organic food growing, started the first Master Composter Program in the U.S. in 1986. The program has changed over the yea...