Local Food Purchasing Incentives are state programs that reimburse schools for buying locally. But first, states need to ...

Why can we only get lamb in the US, as opposed to mutton?” That’s what Bobbie Kramer, a veterinarian near Portland, Oregon, ...

For too long, the pork industry has been permitted to inflict what amounts to criminal animal cruelty—with the help of ...

On the last Tuesday of August, a vehicle pulled into Providence Farm in McLeansville, North Carolina. Joy Combs had been ...

Citrus greening, a disease with no cure, has torn through citrus groves in Florida, Louisiana, Texas and around the world.

Less than one percent of the US is covered in pavement. Although it may feel like roadways, highways, back lanes and city ...

When Charlie Marshall opened his New York City restaurant, The Marshal, in 2013, he was disappointed by the farm-to-table ...

When Neil Patterson Jr. was about 7 or 8 years old, he saw a painting called “Gathering Chestnuts,” by Tonawanda Seneca artist Ernest Smith. Patterson didn’t realize that the painting showed a grove ...

Enrique Balcazar remembers the disillusionment he felt the day he arrived in Vermont from Mexico to work on a dairy farm for ...

How I fell in love with wasps. Yes, the stinging ones. When I am talking to folks about wasps, I usually have to stop a couple of times and explain that when I say I love wasps, I truly do mean wasps.

Kombucha is widely consumed as a fermented, effervescent tea. But some people in the world of textiles look at kombucha and ...