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

Give your bees water and an internal feeder to ensure they have it for more than 24 hours of sealing. Put a mesh screen at ...

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

There are multiple ways to improve drainage, including planting deep-rooted cover crops, aerating with a chisel plow or ...

One farmer developed a simple wheeled seat that rolls down a rail in his greenhouse path. Rather than constantly bending over or crawling along the ground, he can sit on the low seat and easily ...

Briana is a gardening professional with a BS in Plant Sciences focusing on Agroecology. She’s worked in a soil science lab, taught children about plants at an environmental center, and spent over five ...

All told, one official estimate pegs the dairy industry’s losses at $10 billion. While the lake has drained down to about 168 square miles, a chilly spring also kept the high-elevation snowpack at a ...

But today, it is more than just a few of the apple-obsessed who are discovering and rehabilitating old trees. The surging popularity of hard cider has inspired farmers to revitalize old orchards and ...

In 1928, the J.T.D. tomato was used in a breeding program for what has become the most popular Jersey heirloom tomato, the Rutgers. To create it, the J.T.D. was crossed with the Marglobe, a ...

As the founder of Southern Grit magazine, Fitzwater was in a unique position to facilitate this kind of project. He had extensive contacts in both the farming and culinary industries across the region ...