The Miyawaki method of reforestation inserts small, densely packed wild acreage into urban environs. It’s proving wildly successful.

Make Your Own Micro Forest

Today’s kid lit on farming spotlights its diverse reality instead of yesteryear’s cartoonish tropes.

All Grown Up: Farm Books for Kids

Christina Yergat

Much of the United States’ winter produce is grown in one economically depressed desert county in California with a century-long agricultural history, where a multi-billion dollar lithium mining industry looms on the horizon. Will Imperial Valley agriculture survive?

Your Land, My Land

We import almost all of this common kitchen ingredient, but a team of North Carolina researchers is asking: Why not grow it here?

Tarheel Ginger

In Montana, free carcass removal programs help ranchers mitigate conflicts with grizzlies, wolves, and mountain lions — and make compost to boot.

Bears in the Boneyard

Tea production has never had a stronghold in the U.S. — but demand for tea is rising, and climate change has handicapped foreign producers. Now, domestic growers may finally get their shot.


A “Super Tea” Opportunity

As the Trump administration fast-tracks mining for this potent fertilizer, advocacy groups sue over lack of environmental oversight.

The Clash Over Potash

Can farmers pull a solution to the water crisis out of thin air?

When In Drought, Farm Your Moisture

The imminent arrival of cultivated meat products has led to preemptive bans in prime cattle country, causing friction between supporters and accusers. 

Nebraska’s Beef With Lab-Grown Meat

Why the overabundance of Canada geese are causing environmental, health, and crop issues far and wide.

Nobody Loves a Goose

In calls to recognize immigrants as people, too often they’re reduced to what they produce and how they support our economy.

More Than Their Work

There’s a large movement afoot, using agricultural land for solar developments. For some rural neighbors, the cons outweigh the pros.

Not So Sunny

Microbial products made for improving crop growth, also known as biologicals, are a billion-dollar industry, but the promises touted by these products might be too good to be true.

Should Farmers Use Microbial Biological Products? It Depends.

Farms are at the center of a niche but growing movement, transforming the food served in carceral institutions. 

Farm-to-Prison Cuisine

There’s too much demand and not enough elk.

Will the American Elk Industry Shed Its Velvet?

Dungeness crab season was a beloved Bay Area holiday tradition, an annual $40 million boon for crabbers and restaurants alike. But with Humpback whales getting entangled in crabbing lines, the tides have shifted.

Crabs v. Whales

Buying the Farm

Pollution from this heavy metal is still being released into our atmosphere, soil, and waterways — both accidentally and on purpose.

Mercury Moves Up the Food Chain

Every gallon of bourbon produces 10 gallons of waste called “whole stillage,” traditionally converted into animal feed or spread on farm fields. We need somewhere else to put it. 

No Whiskey Wasted

In building a foundation for the future, tree crop cooperatives are taking a patient approach to agricultural sustainability. It all starts with chestnuts.

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