The industrial standard in agriculture involves heavy use of herbicides and pesticides to meet the bottom line of production.

Give your bees water and an internal feeder to ensure they have it for more than 24 hours of sealing. Put a mesh screen at ...

There are multiple ways to improve drainage, including planting deep-rooted cover crops, aerating with a chisel plow or ...

Members of the Aster and Symphyotrichum genera are long-beloved plants with a wide range of nativity across North America.

Whether you’re a gardener or small-scale farmer, you’ve probably been hit with advertisements, YouTube videos, and word-of-mouth stories about the next best thing to make growing plants easier. Your ...

If you want to enrich or remove toxins from your soil and create the ideal growing environment for your crops, fungi may be your secret weapon.

For Joseph Goni, a fourth-generation dairy farmer in Tulare County, California, the region’s historic floods were part of family lore. As such, his grandfather, who lived through the 1955 deluge, ...

Wherever you find an old homestead—a house and barn with a little bit of land that has stood from sometime in the 1800s or early 1900s—you’ll find an apple tree. It may be gnarly, with limbs clawing ...

What comes to mind when you think of Campbell Soup? You might picture cans of tomato soup or perhaps an iconic Andy Warhol print of them. You probably don’t think much about the ingredients that went ...

It was hot in Louisiana, and after 15 hours in the car to get there from Virginia, Joshua Fitzwater and Debra Freeman stepped into the humidity that is common in the community of Calhoun. They had ...