This Holiday Season, Choose a Gift that Supports a Farmer
If you’re looking for the perfect present, check out these farm offerings.
10 Essential Guides for the Farm Curious
So you want to start farming, but you're not sure where to start. We've got you.
Vanilla is in Crisis. Producers in Mexico Are Not Giving Up
Vanilla production is threatened by climate change in Oaxaca, Mexico. If vanilla disappears, local culture is in danger, too, say local Chinantec Indigenous people.
How to Reduce Your Plastic Usage in the Garden
Gardening can be a huge culprit for plastic use, but it doesn’t have to be. Here are easy ways to reduce your plastic use in the garden
Growing a Survival Garden: Ten Calorie-Dense Crops You Can Grow at Home
With grocery store sticker shock keeping budgets tight and major grocery retailers over-inflating prices, learning how to grow calorie- and nutrient-dense food at home is more important than ever. In this guide, you'll learn about the easiest, most nutritionally-dense crops you can grow at home whether you have a patio garden or acres of land.
Ceremonial Grade Cacao is Ceremony’s Subversion
In the last decade, modern cacao ceremonies burst onto the New Age or spiritual scene, quickly followed by their market offspring, “ceremonial grade cacao.” What happens to ceremony in our time when such ceremonial tools can be packaged, promoted and sold in the same way as a candy bar?
On the Ground With Grocery Stores Redefining How Local Food is Produced
Harvested fresh from the parking lot. How grocery stores are breaking down supply chains by growing their own hyper-local produce.
Rural Drinking Water Has a Nitrate Problem
But the consolidation of the sector makes it increasingly hard for organizers to push for drinking water regulation. According to experts, local actions need to be paired with more federal regulation to properly address the drinking water nitrate pollution.
Bringing Back the (Flax) Fields of Gold
American farmers want to grow flax, but there's little infrastructure to support them. These projects are hoping to change that.