Sometimes when Jason Brown gives motivational talks at schools, students tell him he’s crazy. The former NFL offensive lineman walked away from football in 2012 to start First Fruits Farm in North ...

What will become of our oceans, and our aquaculture industry? These stories highlight people working to ensure smooth sailing in our waters for years to come.

Intercropping creates a living web of soil-building and nutrient-exchange underground. When legumes fix nitrogen, root systems complement each other, and canopies reduce erosion and evapotranspiration ...

Melissa Schneider didn’t set out to become a shepherdess. She left Los Angeles looking for something quieter. A life with a slower rhythm, a life closer to the ground. What she found on her Maine farm ...

If you’re driving along the highway in Florida sometime soon, you may find the roadside dotted with the blooms of thousands of flowers. But they aren’t just eye candy. These flowers are intended to ...

Subscribers to a Reddit thread organized a national boycott of grocery mega-chain Loblaws that grew into a community movement to promote farmer’s markets and local food.

Water scarcity is a growing concern. Lack of water from long, recurring droughts is increasingly dominating the food and agriculture world. It’s driven up the cost of groceries and put a dent in ...

Fruits, herbs, and vegetables get all the attention among gardeners. Backyard poultry and goats provide eggs and dairy (and perhaps meat) for some, but what about the staple foods? Wheat, oats, millet ...

There are five key rules to follow when making bourbon whiskey. First, it must be distilled in the United States, and it must be a grain mixture with at least 51 percent corn mash. There can be no ...

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 ...

Outside of Charleston, South Carolina, in the picturesque marshes of the Kiawah River, sits more than 100 acres of working farmland. Seasonal crops rotate through expansive pastures, cattle graze the ...

The influential Danish chef has relied on lovage’s strong celery-like flavor to add character to warm salads, icy granitas, even savory donuts at his Copenhagen restaurant, Noma. (And when he shutters ...