Agriculture

Yes, but modern farms deprive them of meaningful companionship.

Why we're skeptical, and how the government encourages our skepticism.

Saffron is currently mostly imported from Iran. What if we grew our own, in New England?

Farmers are scrambling to cash in on the CBD boom. But when their hemp crops tip over the 0.3% legal limit for THC, they lose everything.

An exodus of grocery stores is turning rural towns into food deserts. But some are fighting back by opening their own local markets.

In May 1982, with the help of Public Art Fund, Denes planted around two acres of wheat in downtown Manhattan at the old Battery Park Landfill.

Cuthbert the Goose, Trigger the Pig and others went viral in America — and helped British children in the process.

There are still cowboys driving livestock across America in 2019. While most of us are snoozing, they're rolling up to dark fields with trucks full of creatures that are critical to our nation's agriculture: thousands and thousands of bees.

Sometimes you have to leave "why?" at the door and embrace the madness.

Here, podcasters Brendan O'Hare and Cory Snearowski have crafted a soundscape that's sort of in line with what you might expect from "Tim and Eric" or "I Think You Should Leave." It's great.

It is likely that honey bees, along with sheep and goats, were among the first creatures to start moving down a path toward domestication when agriculture emerged and spread out of Anatolia and the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago.

And why today's banana companies are afraid. Very afraid.

The job means you're removed from society and have to cook with limited resources — and you never quite get all the kief off your fingers..

Have spider mites on your alocacia? Struggling with root rot? Chances are Instagram influencers like Christine Kelso, Jennifer Tao, Brandon Jeon, Darlene Zavala and Danae Horst (gardening gurus with more than 300,000 followers among them) have the answers you're seeking.

Maple season is in full effect for these fourth-generation sugar makers.

We're feeling awfully deprived now that we're doubtful that we've ever eaten real "wasabi."

Farmers aren't producing enough to keep up with the number of smaller markets that keep popping up, often in close proximity to others.

This Christmas, like every other, I traveled to northern Wisconsin to stay with my parents on the dairy farm I grew up on. As usual I took the opportunity to help my dad and younger brother with barn chores and milk cows. I didn't help out every shift but I worked more than enough to once again be humbled about the life I left behind and recalibrate my nostalgia.

The movement's values are broadly back-to-the-land, but it contains members on- and off-grid, vegans and experts in hunting and butchery, Floridians harvesting 100-pound bunches of bananas and Alaskans chiseling ice off their outhouses.

If anything, the rise of farm-raised fish has increased our desire for seafood.

The GOP's latest attack against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal is dishonest. But history shows why it might work.

His chestnut forest is home to thousands of hens.

A "plant explorer" helped establish the crop in California.

Smallhold, a Brooklyn-based company that builds high-tech, climate-controlled "Minifarms" that grow mushrooms, has been rolling out its wares in the New York area in restaurants and more recently, Whole Foods.

Follow fourth-generation sugar cane farmer Wenceslaus "June" Provost Jr. as he fights to protect his family's agricultural legacy.

As corporations rush in to make a buck, some farmers are pushing back — and fighting for the soul of organic food.

The farm bill on Trump's desk funds programs that help make farming more accessible.

Monsanto's new herbicide was supposed to save US farmers from financial ruin. Instead, it upended the agriculture industry, pitting neighbor against neighbor in a struggle for survival.

So-called "deep farms" need vertical shafts close to towns. Coal mines might be just the ticket.

From planning to harvest, the grain belt's rhythms and prospects have been disrupted by the government's tariff battle with China.

More than 80 farms in the upper Midwest have recently filed for bankruptcy. Trump's trade war is partially to blame.

When a Russian scientist identified the Malus sieversii as the progenitor of the domestic apple, harvests in Kazakhstan's forests were bountiful; now this wild fruit is threatened.

Cows are notorious for being hard to manage so this farmer came up with an "innovative" solution.

Gourds are the runts of their family of fruits, too tough and bitter to eat, but they remain one of the most popular crops of fall.

How did we go from our supermarkets being dominated by "Red Delicious" to a sea of new apple upstarts?

Weak cannabis regulation helped create a boom, and as it recedes the high costs are becoming clear.

The world's most popular fruit is facing extinction, and scientists are racing to use gene-editing to save it. To succeed, they'll need to overcome an even bigger problem: opposition to GMO crops.

A new technology in which insects are used to genetically modify crops could be converted into a dangerous, and possibly illegal, bioweapon, alleges a Science Policy Forum report released today.

Can Americans be convinced to eat ancient foods they've never heard of?

A bizarre pest from Asia is spreading fast and putting billions of dollars' worth of resources at risk.

Of course people farm frogs. Of course. That's a thing that makes sense. It's just also a thing that we've never, ever had to think about before and it's sort of twisting our minds.

Dewayne Johnson tries not to think about dying. Doctors have said the 46-year-old cancer patient could have months to live, but he doesn't like to dwell on death. These days, he has an easy distraction — navigating the international attention on his life.

Or any mom, for that matter, or prepare to suffer the consequences.

You know exactly what's going to happen here, but that doesn't make the outcome any less sweet.

How labor, shipping expenses, and other factors effect the overall price of the Neapolitan pie, state by state.

More than two centuries after settling in Honduras, the Garifuna people are still fighting for a place to raise their families.

Several products are getting closer to market. Missouri legislators just said they can't be sold as "meat."

Spoiler: it involves lobbyists.

For the first time in what historians say could be centuries, hemp has been grown and harvested at Mount Vernon, George Washington's historic estate.

Take a tour inside an egg processing facility where eggs are checked for cleanliness, strength, size, shape and air pocket content.

Red salmon, a summertime pleasure that feeds residents through the winter, has failed to show up this season in most rivers.

One night in 1992, farmer Jeff Ditzenberger walked into an abandoned house near his farm in Monroe, Wisconsin and lit it on fire. He had no intention of walking out alive. But as the walls caught fire around him, he changed his mind. And he walked out.

Almond growing in California is a $7.6 billion industry that wouldn't be possible without the 30 billion bees (and hundreds of human beekeepers) who keep the trees pollinated — and whose very existence is in peril.

Milk prices have already fallen 4 percent this year, continuing a steady decline since 2014, according to data from the Labor Department. Meanwhile, net farm income, a broad measure of profits, is forecast to drop this year to its lowest level since 2006, according to the Department of Agriculture.

A team of Italian divers is growing basil, tomatoes, and strawberries.

He's saving the farmers from the effects of the trade war that he started.

The flavors can be intense and unfamiliar — savory, salty and startlingly sour. These wines flout the conventions of connoisseurship, but among the city's wine geeks and sommeliers, natural wine has an intense following.