Careful timing ensures crops can handle a little heat. But recently, sudden heat waves and long-lasting ones in already warm ...

The industrial standard in agriculture involves heavy use of herbicides and pesticides to meet the bottom line of production.

Members of the Aster and Symphyotrichum genera are long-beloved plants with a wide range of nativity across North America.

Plant your trees in late fall to early spring. In addition to full sunlight, fig trees appreciate a lot of room. If you’re planting more than one tree, make sure they have 15 to 20 feet between them.

And there’s stewardship value in farm survival. “Keeping these 450 acres of land open is good for property values, but it’s also good for groundwater, wildlife habitat, food security and climate ...

Located in a desert—a literal one, as well as an isolated area with limited access to food—the dry patch of land now home to the Huachuca City Community Garden (HCCG) was never intended to be a ...

As she walks amongst the sea of green, yellow and orange leaves of a chestnut tree orchard, carefully collecting chestnut burrs from the trees, Sara Fitzsimmons, director of restoration for the ...

For Joseph Goni, a fourth-generation dairy farmer in Tulare County, California, the region’s historic floods were part of family lore. As such, his grandfather, who lived through the 1955 deluge, ...

By 1910, when the company launched its tomato breeding program, Campbell’s had undergone a name change and released its signature ready-to-eat Beefsteak Tomato soup. The following year, the company ...

Licensed service centers and facilitators can’t advertise psilocybin as a medical or clinical treatment. Bendable Therapy coordinators, by contrast, aren’t licensed facilitators and therefore can ...

Other farmers opt for rotating platform systems Farmers seeking an upgrade have other options beyond milking robots. Rotary milking parlors allow cows to step onto a circulating platform before ...

Intercropping is about planting more, but it’s also about farming smarter. By pairing compatible crops, growers reduce inputs, suppress weeds, and most importantly, build healthy, rich soil. For those ...