With the popularity of locally grown vegetables soaring, a new Web site hopes to make it easier for chefs to find farmers in their area and have produ...
Posted 09.28.2009 | Green
People were skeptical when farmer Hao Xianzhang announced his plan to take a page out of a classic novel and grow pears shaped like babies, but he's h...
Huffington Post | Eve Solomon | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
September and October are great planting months for root veggies and leafy greens. Want to eat local? Give growing your own veggies a try this winter....
nytimes.com | CHRISTINE MUHLKE | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
Three years ago, [publisher Judith Jones] started raising cattle. Now when her writers visit her summer home in northern Vermont to test recipes, they...
Paula Crossfield | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
As a political observer following the shift occurring in our understanding about agriculture, I can't help but be reminded that change does not come p...
Huffington Post | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green
With the first day of fall upon us, we put together a tribute to the autumn harvest. From grapes and tobacco found in Bulgaria to coconuts from India...
Huffington Post | Eve Solomon | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green
What a great week in animals! The HuffPost Green page posted adorable videos, beautiful photos, and some more serious animal news pieces. Be sure to v...
AP | NATASHA T. METZLER | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — First lady Michelle Obama bought cheese, fingerling potatoes, eggs, black kale and other items Thursday at the launch of a new farm...
AP | MICHAEL J. CRUMB | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
DES MOINES, Iowa — Darrel McAlexander has been farming for 43 years and he's never seen his corn crop look so good. "This is probably the best ...
Jenna Woginrich | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green
The problem is that Americans have convinced themselves that cheap food, a seasonless selection, and endless variety are their rights instead of healthy food, in-season crops, and correct variety.
Janine Yorio | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green
The sustainable agriculture sector is about to pop.
CO. Independent | CO Independent | Posted 11.08.2009 | Home
As stress in the farming sector rises across Colorado and nationwide, some mental health professionals are hoping the federal government will s...
Jenna Woginrich | Posted 10.18.2009 | Green
If there are people willing to spend $300 a night to sleep in a tent and spend Labor Day weekend as migrant workers, I think that screams paradigm shift. A welcomed one, at that.
Grist.org | Tom Philpott | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green
By Tom Philpott. This post originally appeared at grist.org. In the ongoing debate about whether sustainable agriculture can "feed the world," it's i...
Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 09.27.2009 | Green
Wednesday, Organic Nation TV released a new video detailing an aquaponics operation in Flanagan, Illinois. Dorothee Royal-Hedinger writes, Myles Har...
Chelsea Green | Makenna Goodman | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
Guest post by Makenna Goodman, Chelsea Green Publishing Last night, we had fourteen people over for dinner. And they wanted chicken. Good thing we h...
Sarah Newman | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green
I had the pleasure of interviewing 12-year old Orren Fox of Newburyport, MA who happens to keep 25 backyard chickens.
nytimes.com | NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green
On a summer visit back to the farm here where I grew up, I think I figured out the central problem with modern industrial agriculture. It's not just t...
Tara Lohan | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green
For most locavores, buying local usually means shopping at your independent Main Street retailer or farmers market, not buying processed foods from a multibillion-dollar enterprise as Lays would have them do.
TIME | Bryan Walsh Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green
We don't have the luxury of philosophizing about food. With the exhaustion of the soil, the impact of global warming and the inevitably rising price o...
Paula Crossfield | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green
I needn't remind you that Oklahoma is a stronghold for climate change deniers like Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe. But Oklahoma could be poised to redeem itself, taking on the unsustainability of industrial agriculture.
Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green
Last week, Jim Cramer did a fascinating segment on the seed giant and Roundup herbicide producer, Monsanto. He posits that Monsanto could be a prime t...
Chelsea Green | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green
There are plenty of books out there on organic farming. (It's true--just check out our bookstore!) But there aren't a lot of books on the actual nuts-...
Aemilia Scott | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green
I've got news for you: Whole Foods is lame. It's been lame for a long while now.
Julia Moulden | Posted 09.15.2009 | Living
Driving through farm country this week - lush green fields, huge blue skies, produce stands filled to bursting - I was listening to a piece on the rad...
npr.org | Morning Edition | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green