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 ...

Small dairy farms in Vermont teeter chronically on the brink of insolvency. Nearly half of Vermont’s dairies have gone out of business in the past 10 years, primarily small farms. Things got even ...

Goji berries . Good news: You can still plant a superfood with limited water needs. Pick a spot with full-day sun. Goji berries can tolerate many types of soil, but they prefer an environment that is ...

The history of the sugar beet has far more twists and turns than you might expect, from Napoleonic orders to anti-slavery movements. One of the newer uses for the sugar beet lies in using a mixture of ...

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 ...

As she walks amongst the sea of green, yellow and orange leaves of a chestnut tree orchard, carefully collecting chestnut burrs from the trees, Sara Fitzsimmons, director of restoration for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cleaver runs his livestock and vegetable farm, through which he offers a weekly CSA—although you won’t hear him calling it that. “The term CSA has a bad stigma now, because so many people have been ...