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...
Chelsea Green | Makenna Goodman | Posted 09.13.2009 | Green
In the post-Omnivore's Dilemma reality, where farmer Joel Salatin is known far outside his county, it doesn't take a genius to say it: farming has tot...
David M. Abromowitz | Posted 09.12.2009 | Green
Sowing the seeds of the right approach to farmland preservation today will enable more of us to reap the bounty of locally grown produce long into the future.
CNNMoney.Com | Steve Hargreaves | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business
On a side street in an old industrial neighborhood, a delivery man stacks a dolly of goods outside a store. Ten feet away stands another man clad in m...
Liz Neumark | Posted 09.11.2009 | New York
It has been a dream to host a formal dinner on our farm. It was an idea discussed long ago which finally came to fruition.
nytimes.com | DAN BARBER | Posted 09.09.2009 | Green
Of course, farmers aren't the only ones affected. If you love eating flavorful organic field tomatoes, good luck -- they'll be as rare this summer as ...
Journalism Boot Camp | Posted 09.06.2009 | World
For Egypt and the rest of the Middle East, the future of food security will be dependent upon nations providing a clean supply of water for agricultural use.
Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 08.30.2009 | Green
Struck with the urge to build a garden but with no land to grow it on, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis (co-creators of the film King Corn) of Wicked Delica...
Huffington Post | Ami Cholia | Posted 08.29.2009 | Green
The Princeton Review just came out with a list of the green honor roll for 15 colleges across the country based on their eco-friendly practices and su...
Patrick Sauer | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media
Oelwein is a microcosm of small town everywhere, but Methland shows that the drug abuse is a symptom, not the cause, of the deeply ingrained problems facing rural America.
Anis Shivani | Posted 08.15.2009 | Business
Reading Steiner's $20 Per Gallon makes us realize how contingent our way of life is, and how uncertain its future prospects are.
Paula Crossfield | Posted 08.10.2009 | Green
One can't help but wonder if by requesting this money from the G8 in the name of charity we are instead trying to promote our own economy.
Louise McCready | Posted 08.07.2009 | Green
Ana Joanes: When confronted with such large and complex problems, it's hard to see the meaning of small, individual actions. I embarked on the making of Fresh to recapture a sense of agency.
CNN | Posted 07.31.2009 | Green
On a plot of soil, nestled against the backdrop of skyscrapers in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, a group of residents are turning a lack of access to fres...
Rob Smart | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green
Consumer advocates for sustainable, healthy food are fighting with farmers, not because either picked a fight with the other, but because the knowledge gap between them has grown so expansive.
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living
I have something in common with Michelle Obama, a brand new vegetable garden in my back yard. Mine was started by my 21 year old son, home from colle...
Louise McCready | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green
Robert Kenner gives us a twenty-first century Upton-Sinclair-look at the industrial food system in his latest film, Food, Inc., and not since The Jungle has the food in the U.S. seemed so unsafe.
New York Times | Jennifer 8. Lee | Posted 07.23.2009 | New York
The sustainable garden with the most exclusive real estate in Washington is no doubt the one at the White House. The sustainable farm with the most ex...
Eli Davidson | Posted 07.20.2009 | Living
Minus the machinery, life on the Bucyrus Kansas farm I grew up on was much like life has been around the globe for thousands of years. Transfixed by t...
nytimes.com | Marian Burros | Posted 07.18.2009 | Living
THIS summer, Tony Tomelden hopes to be making bloody marys at the Pug in Washington, D.C., with tomatoes and chilies grown above the bar, thanks to th...
AP | Posted 07.18.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — The new climate change science report by the federal government looks at effects of global warming on specific U.S. regions and for...
dornob | Posted 07.17.2009 | Green
In increasingly dense urban areas, sometimes the only way to build is up. And with a movement to grow more food locally and to add more green to our u...
Nicolette Hahn Niman | Posted 07.16.2009 | Green
Intensive farming systems -- with crowded animals, ventilation systems, and huge collections of manure -- make industrial poultry and swine operations into breeding grounds for a host of perilous diseases.
Chelsea Green | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green