Growing up on that farm inculcated in me a need for space, isolation, and silence, and gave me room to grow strange and introspective.
Meet the plant that’s beautiful, grows in poor soil, and more nutritious than a soy bean.
If you build a better bug trap, farmers will beat a path to your door.
Scenes From a Pot Farmers’ Market
Northern California’s first pot farmers’ market is like most other farmers’ markets, except you buy weed instead of kale and there’s the possibility you’ll go to prison ”“ which gives visits to the Organicann Harvest Market in Sonoma County a bit of an edge.
If everything works out, self-driving tractors will be rolling off the assembly line by September.
How do you connect 270,000 growers in 38 countries, most of whom do not have access to the Internet? Look to the humble text message.
Ag-Gag Laws: State of the States
Instead of a unified national piece of legislation, ag-gag laws are splintered across the land. Each one has its own quirks.
What do you see when you walk into a liquor store? If you’re nature writer Amy Stewart, you see “the world’s most exotic botanical garden, the sort of strange and overgrown conservatory we only encounter in our dreams.”
After Prohibition, the tradition of locally grown and sourced malt died out in America, even for craft brewers. But a small band of micro-malters aim to change all that.
