Growing Food

The Wonder of Farm Fresh Eggs (video)

Clare Carver shares her thoughts on all that goes into the making of farm fresh eggs, and their final destination inside the egg …

Kendra Kimbirauskas grew up on a small farm in the Midwest watching her parents working long hours to make ends meet. With an …

This is not your typical story, for Anthony Boutard, of Ayers Creek Farm, is not your typical farmer. Trained as a forester, he …

Lon Rombough, author of The Grape Grower: A Guide to Organic Viticulture, shares a personal family story about the origin of his …

Roger Rainville’s biodiesel production system didn’t come out of an instruction manual or textbook. As he describes in Energy …

How can Tom Trantham’s cows graze alfalfa and not be susceptible to bloat? The short answer: feed the cows a total mix ration …

More people are growing their own food this year, many for the first time. When I started gardening, I found it helpful to start …

Alan Kapuler: Open Pollinated Public Domain Plant Breeder-Part 3 We live in a hyper-competitive era where often the model of …

There are thousands of dairy farms out there. And most treat their cows on par with industry standards: Milk them until they no …

When the population of worker bees exceeds the resource capacity of a hive, a portion of the colony will leave to find a new …