Augustus Thrall arrived in what would become Boone County in 1816, settling on land that would become the Model Farm half a century later. He established a store and lodging place on the prairie named ...

The Atlantic looks at a group effort in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, to reverse the standard industrial farming model, where both money and product tend to leave the area. The goal is to keep more ...

WOLCOTTVILLE, Ind. (WANE) — After receiving state recognition last week for their efforts to preserve a farm that predates the American Civil War, the Evers family received another gift Monday from an ...

On a special episode (first released on November 20, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: AI applications in vertical farming have the potential to usher in a new model that not only yields a high volume of ...

PAW PAW, MI – When Denise Blakely was a little girl, she was terrified of horses. Today, she spends her days surrounded by them. Her parents bought a 20-acre farm in Orangeville when she was eight, ...

Four years ago, the vertical farming startup Bowery opened what it called the first “post-organic” farm, growing pesticide-free leafy greens inside a warehouse in New Jersey. Now its products are in ...

Originally, Jean-Martin Fortier knew nothing about farming. Now a world-renowned sustainable farmer, Fortier will be visiting the Roaring Fork Valley to share not just his tips to disrupt the ...

Jason Vanwulven, a farmer at Plant for a Change in Tennessee, uses a drill for the first time while working with Tyler Butzer, a carpentry farmhand at Prospect Meadow Farm in Hatfield, to make a ...

What if the future of farming didn’t involve sprawling fields or endless rows of crops under the open sky? What if the solution to feeding a growing global population lay not in expanding farmland but ...

For all his life, Alaskan fisherman Dune Lankard has looked to the sea—for food, work and purpose. “I started fishing when I was five,” says Lankard, a member of the Athabaskan Eyak community, an ...