Two years ago, a British ex-pat started a modest farmer’s market in Dubai, under the shadow of the world’s tallest building. With just three vendors, it was virtually the only place to buy local produce in the entire city.
5 Public Libraries That Have Gone to Seed (Libraries)
Seed libraries lend seeds similarly to the way public libraries lend books: members take out seeds for free and plant and tend to their crops. But what members return isn’t a basket of tomatoes, but some seeds from the yield.
Why Lettuce Keeps Making Us Sick
When it comes to beef and poultry, pathogens like salmonella and E. coli O157:H7 can be killed by proper handling and cooking in the kitchen. But with lettuce and spinach, which are consumed raw, the foodborne fate is sealed in, literally, on the farm during harvest and processing.
How to Build a Straw Bale Garden
Garden dirt no good? Just don’t have dirt, period? Here’s how to build a straw bale garden
The Illustrated Journals of a Dairy Farmer in 1941
The continuing journals of dairy farmer W.G. Pope from 1941, as illustrated by his great-grandson. This week: a trip to the lake.
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.
When Mary Ann Fox passed away this winter, she left behind quite a legacy – thousands and thousands of heirloom beans.
