When it comes to squash varieties, there are way too many to count. This delicious fruit is one of the longest cultivated food plants, with a storied history that dates back over 8,000 years. This is ...

Aside from the obvious savings when you harvest and plant your own seed, you also preserve the seeds that performed best in ...

If you want to promote higher populations of beneficial insects, cull your buckwheat crops within 20 days of flowering. If ...

As she walks amongst the sea of green, yellow and orange leaves of a chestnut tree orchard, carefully collecting chestnut burrs from the trees, Sara Fitzsimmons, director of restoration for the ...

What is graywater, exactly? Household wastewater from washing machines, bathroom sinks, showers, and bathtubs is considered “gray” because it is only lightly soiled and poses a minimal health risk. As ...

We all strive to eat what’s in season. We sign up for CSAs and avoid buying nectarines from the grocery store in the dead of an East Coast winter. But seasonality shouldn’t be confined to salads. Here ...

What comes to mind when you think of Campbell Soup? You might picture cans of tomato soup or perhaps an iconic Andy Warhol print of them. You probably don’t think much about the ingredients that went ...

A dearth of children in the wake of the Great Plague, some historians surmise, led farmers to use adults to guard their crops, some keeping watch in straw huts as Native Americans did, evident in an ...

The American barbecue brisket that popped up on the menu at NYC bistro ACRU was a bit different than what one would typically expect from a Greenwich Village restaurant. The meat came from a dairy cow ...

From 2014 to 2021, Minnesota farmer James Wolf raised organic soybeans, corn and wheat, selling the grains to farmers across the midwest, both for seed and animal feed. Selling organic grain allowed ...

1. A shepherd’s life is most humble (the oldest profession) From the beginning of time, shepherds have been the proverbial “ditch diggers,” the down-trodden, the disrespected. Hence, even the angels ...

Last spring, farms across the country saw a surge in demand for their CSA programs, with signups and waitlists that flourished at rates not seen before. As families sheltered in place at home and ...