Although better known for its wine and cheese, France also has hardware stores that are not to be sniffed at. Personal favorite and market leader in the DIY sector - or secteur du ...
Lucky Tiger: Tomato Lovers Get Lucky
A tomato breeder has cracked the green-when-ripe tomato code. His stunning introduction Lucky Tiger is the latest and best of his cherry tomato breeding efforts.
From firefighters to professional partiers, goats have all kinds of day jobs.
Seeds. Usually cheap, easily acquired, often ignored: what are they worth? For some, they form the beginning of a post-apocalyptic economy. Our look at a group of people who believe societal collapse is imminent – and are stockpiling seeds to be ready.
A Visit to the Petaluma Seed Bank
Illustrator Wendy MacNaughton visited the Petaluma Seed Bank, established in 2009 in a building that was once California's Central Bank.
Fertilizers: A Long History of Risky Business
Last night, a fire at a fertilizer plant near Waco, Texas exploded as firefighters worked, flattening the town and killing an unknown number of people. Onlookers described the plume as like a mushroom cloud; the blast was felt 40 miles away. How did this happen? Why a fertilizer plant? What kind of safety precautions exist to prevent such disasters? We attempt to explain.
As wild pigs tear up up soybeans, rice and other crops in Louisiana, Cy Brown and James Palmer take to the sky with a pig-killing drone.
This Is What Humane Slaughter Looks Like. Is It Good Enough?
Technically, humane slaughter became law in the United States with the 1958 Humane Slaughter Act, intended to prevent the “needless suffering” of livestock during slaughter. But while it’s one thing to understand slaughter practices on a theoretical level, it’s another to be in the same room when a cow dies.
