Your broadfork is one of the best small-scale farm tools, especially in areas where soils compact year after year, whether ...

Planting the ‘Cuor di Bue Albenga’ tomato in June works well in most areas since the plants take 85 days to start producing ...

Rather than spraying your entire field with insecticides or covering your plants for protection, you can implement trap crops ...

Slopes greater than ten percent are better suited to other practices, like terracing.

Conservation buffers are strips of land, often planted with native perennials, strategically placed among and around row ...

The pesticide has a tendency to vaporize and drift for miles, where it can destroy other soybean farms as well as wild trees. Though millions of acres have been affected, Monsanto maintains that the ...

In 2008, Jessica Eikleberry was 29 years old and had just read Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma. She wanted to start eating locally and, with the help of her mom, she made a goal for the coming ...

Thadeaus Umpster hates waste. “There’s so much labor and effort that goes into growing and making good, healthy food, and a huge percentage of it is wasted every day,” he says . “That hurts me at the ...