A nature-friendly Norfolk farm is harnessing millions of tiny microbes to put life back into barren soils - and to feed crops without artificial chemicals. But while large grazing animals and ...
While not much can be done about the price of fuel, there are steps that can be taken to increase the fuel efficiency of rolling farm iron.
I don’t know where I first heard that expression, but I’m sure it was somewhere on the family dairy farm in rural Wisconsin. It animates everything we do as we strive to keep the farm and the land ...
Hydroponic gardening is a great way to grow food—without soil—in smaller spaces. Here's what you need to know. Whether you’re interested in growing a small food garden at home or looking at ...
Cary Fowler was enjoying a comfortable retirement at his country home in New York. The food activist, who's in his 70s, already has shelves full of prestigious awards honoring his efforts to ...
In the late 1990s, Jason Gathorne-Hardy was using a fishing net tied to a hazel branch to try to catch a dove stuck in a barn used to store sheep food. It struck him that there was no future in ...
Sally Bernard's black and white cows wander over a field in Freetown, P.E.I., chewing on hay and basking in the warm April sunshine. These are beef cattle, but their main purpose isn't to make it ...
An expanding Norfolk farm shop is continuing its meteoric growth - while creating a hyper-local "farm to fork" food chain which fulfils a proud family livestock legacy. The award-winning Goat Shed ...
This story appears in the March 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Tire tracks stretched across the flat lake bed to the horizon. We followed them in a Suzuki 4x4, looking for clues about ...