For decades after the concept of biodynamic farming was introduced in 1924, there was an aura of witch and wizard mysticism ...

Despite having nearly a billion acres of prime farmland and a population of only 330 million people, the U.S. agriculture ...

Lea Rainey knew that if all the plastic encasing the food she was buying at the grocery store was her pet peeve, other people ...

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Novelist Paula Whyman wanted to leave her city life and find an acre or two of rural pasture to explore. Instead, she found herself trying to restore 200 acres of farmland on a Virginia mountain top.

Starting a garden can be a big step. Knowing what to plant, when, and how–that takes time. And what if you want to branch out, and start raising animals? The learning curve is steep. That’s where we ...

The prairie dog caught in Trap 69 was angry. And who could blame her? After waking up in her burrow on a mid-September morning, she’d waddled innocently outside for a breakfast of mini marshmallows ...

The ant scurries along on six nimble legs. It catches up to its peers, a line of antennaed bugs roaming the winding surface of a tree, perpetually hunting for food. While doing so, each unknowingly ...

The Food and Drug Administration has not performed its legally required number of food safety inspections each year since 2018, according to a new government watchdog report. Each year, about one in ...

It’s time to look beyond the Farm Bill. The Farm Bill, passed once every five years, is the most important piece of federal legislation affecting American agriculture and food access. Originally ...