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

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 ...

One farmer developed a simple wheeled seat that rolls down a rail in his greenhouse path. Rather than constantly bending over or crawling along the ground, he can sit on the low seat and easily ...

Your broadfork is one of the best small-scale farm tools, especially in areas where soils compact year after year, whether from heavy rains or clay soils.For farmers who want to keep their farms ...

Proteins aside, Circ, a recycling innovator, has developed a hydrothermal process that can separate polyester-cotton blends—the largest blend category globally—and recover both portions to make into ...

When Paula and Dale Boles took over Dale’s father’s farmland in North Carolina, they thought that poultry farming would be a good way to work the land until they were ready to pass it on to their ...

Sacramento-based Farmers’ Rice Cooperative (FRC), the country’s largest medium-grain rice processor, is enticing some of those corn and alfalfa farmers to switch to rice. It’s promoting interest-free ...

As of 2020, there were more than 21,000 CAFOs in the US, and some are clustered geographically. In California’s San Joaquin Valley, for example, some people live next to as many as 25 CAFOs. The ...

Mapping the mother tree. In 2021, the University of Kentucky announced its intentions to create the largest repository of American white oak. Its new partner? Maker’s Mark, the legendary bourbon ...

In a second building on his property in Springfield, Oregon, Gared Hansen grows mushrooms containing psilocybin, a psychedelic compound that grows naturally in the environment. Hansen harvests the ...

The day that I met Alanna Kieffer was spectacularly sunny with a gentle saline breeze—a rarity on the rainy Oregon coast. It was my first visit to Cannon Beach, but Kieffer appeared to be perfectly at ...