A quick kill reduces an animal’s suffering and improves the quality of its meat. Can it also support small-scale fishermen and sustainable seas?

If You Give a Fish Some Grace

Nathaniel Wilder

Salmon fishermen in Bristol Bay are seeking alternatives to the massive processors that have long controlled their paychecks, attempting to build a more lucrative, conscientious supply chain. It won’t be easy.

Swimming Upstream

Long dismissed for its bitterness, the hickory nut is attracting attention for its oil — and its potential to elevate perennial agriculture.

America’s New Olive Oil

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

Make Your Own Micro Forest

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

The Longest View in the Room

Battered by climate change and cultivated competitors, Maine’s wild blueberry growers stare down an existential crisis.

Black and Blue in the Barrens

A post-pandemic surge in federal support gave urban agriculture a moment in the sun. Under the revamped USDA, the outlook is clouded.


The Urban Farming Comedown

Banned by the federal government a century ago, black currants were cast to the fringes of U.S. agriculture. Agroforestry advocates and berry connoisseurs are urging a revival.

A Taste of the Forbidden Fruit

Bullied by blight, the filbert has long failed to find a home on farms in the eastern U.S. After decades of research, its arrival is imminent.

Ben Seal