Careful timing ensures crops can handle a little heat. But recently, sudden heat waves and long-lasting ones in already warm ...

Plants that attract these beneficial predators include vetch, alfalfa, corn, and crimson clover. Natives like elderberry, ...

The industrial standard in agriculture involves heavy use of herbicides and pesticides to meet the bottom line of production.

Members of the Aster and Symphyotrichum genera are long-beloved plants with a wide range of nativity across North America.

These pros react to viral farming hacks and determine which ones actually have promise.

Sustainability was a big draw for The Oberon Group, which owns restaurants and food markets in the Catskills and New York City. They introduced dairy beef in 2017, and while customers supported the ...

Vanilla production is threatened by climate change in Oaxaca, Mexico. If vanilla disappears, local culture is in danger, too, say local Chinantec Indigenous people.

On a humid summer day in southeastern PA, farmers have traveled hours to Pasture Song Farm to see flax in the field. Farmer Jeremy Dunphy stands next to his four-acre test plot, brimming with flax as ...

The American presidential campaign to many feels existential. The candidate who wins will guide (at minimum) the next four years of fiscal and social policy in the US, with reverberations across the ...

Today’s oceans are littered with plastics. Tiny microplastics, often invisible to the naked eye, swirl in our tidepools. Large pieces of plastic debris stretch across stretches of open sea. The ...

“Farming, ranching, field base food production were a big part of Indigenous culture in this region that got wiped out by the Indian Act,” says Beaton. When the act was enacted in 1876, it took ...