See how Green City Growers is turning unused urban spaces into vibrant farms around eastern Massachusetts while educating people in the process.
Creating opportunities for students to operate an indoor farm remotely using technology has helped kids lean about food while seeing themselves as makers.
Learn about urban farming including how it differs from typical gardening and larger farms. Urban farming involves both plant and animal life.
Urban farms may not to do much to improve food security, but they bring together communities and connect cultures.
What makes 'local food' local? Can a corporation like BrightFarms provide what a community needs?
Don't grow out—grow up! The founder of Brooklyn's Eagle Street Rooftop Farm shows how to grow a rooftop farm. Read more on sustainability blog Civil Eats!
"I think more and more people in this country are wanting to know where their food is coming from."
Climate Corporation aims to take the guesswork out of farming. The company offers a slate of "digital agriculture" tools that provide a real-time look at what's happening on the farm.
People say we're "rich in other ways," but that doesn't fix the ugly fact that most farms are unsustainable
Ready to dig into that city garden of your dreams? Here's our advice.
The idea for the dumpster bill is to provide a convenient way for hunters to butcher their deer and dispose of the carcass in manner that will lower the risk of spreading prions, the abnormal and self-replicating proteins believed to cause CWD.
Robots will milk the cows and pick up their waste, which will be used as fertilizer.
If the idea of handing over your farm or ranch to the next generation makes you nervous, you’re not alone. Most producers walk through a range of emotions, including anxiety
Disposing of home or commercial waste? Renting a dumpster is a great solution, but did you know there is a limit to what material you can put in a dumpster?
Numerous factors in play for this producer investment
Waste-hauling costs are increasing and recycling policies are becoming stricter. Apartment operators are seeing the effects and are taking a variety of steps to improve efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
Most horse farms employ teenagers in some fashion, as muckers, groomers, braiders, and exercise riders; they help turn horses in and out, they feed and they do other barn chores. Teens weed whack, mow and help put up hay. They are junior counselors for summer camps. They are farm sitters. Teenagers are ubiquitous at lesson …
The problem is, our labor is an asset like any other on the farm, and whether it’s a labor of love or a labor for profit, how we spend it has grave impacts on the course of our businesses, personal lives and the land we steward.
A new survey shows that a fifth of Americans throw their unused medication in the trash. Consumer Reports provides tips on safer ways to dispose of your old pills.
“I cannot imagine trying to farm in a country under siege.”