Forests offer farmers a specialized area for growing all kinds of crops. Mushrooms are excellent in forest farming systems, ...

If you ask queer farmer Hannah Breckbill to tell you about the day that changed everything, she’ll likely point to an afternoon in January 2018. She was one year into cooperatively owning her own land ...

The act is exactly what it sounds like. Four seated couples maneuver vintage tractors into daisy chains and do-si-dos in front of a live audience. It would be hard to squeeze more nostalgia into a ...

Viola × wittrockiana, commonly referred to as pansies, are like cabbages and leafy greens in that they love a little bit of ...

(Editor’s Note: A previous version of this story stated that thieves stole an estimated 60 million pounds of maple syrup. It was actually 6 million. We regret the ...

If you’ve perused a selection of California wines recently, you might have noticed something strange. There are 2019 vintages available and 2021 vintages, but there’s a big hole in the market where ...

There are five key rules to follow when making bourbon whiskey. First, it must be distilled in the United States, and it must be a grain mixture with at least 51 percent corn mash. There can be no ...

I have to admit, my interest in raising pigs stemmed entirely from my love for bacon. Most pig farmers buy “weaners,” piglets about two or three months old that are no longer reliant on their mother’s ...

A dearth of children in the wake of the Great Plague, some historians surmise, led farmers to use adults to guard their crops, some keeping watch in straw huts as Native Americans did, evident in an ...

Milk myths didn’t stop with the Greeks, though. Ever since the first cow udders were yanked by human hands, the substance has invited inspection, suspicion, fear and desire. But these days, we milk ...

Outside of Charleston, South Carolina, in the picturesque marshes of the Kiawah River, sits more than 100 acres of working farmland. Seasonal crops rotate through expansive pastures, cattle graze the ...