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Lifestyle
Agri-porn! A Video Tour of Stone Barns Farm
A video tour of the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, an 80-acre farm, educational center, and restaurant in Pocantico Hills, New York.
Culture
Slideshow: Down, Out, and Surrounded by Sewage in Coachella
Not all of the Coachella Valley is music and parties.
Lifestyle
Food Studies: The Trouble with Land-Grant Universities
150 years ago, the government founded land-grant universities to keep agriculture alive in the U.S. What should they be teaching today?
Lifestyle
Farmers' Markets Continue to Spread Like Wildfire (in a Good Way)
As of 2010, 6,132 farmers' markets exist nationwide—that's 16 percent growth since 2009, 214 percent since 2000. Grist
Lifestyle
Radishes in Suburbia: Documenting Urban Growth and the End of a Family Farm
Threatened by sprawl, a fourth-generation family farmer documents his doomed way of life with time-lapse video.
Lifestyle
Donald Tyson, Chicken King, Dies
The company he built, Tyson Foods, is now the largest meat-producing company in the world.
Lifestyle
Big Egg Deal Gives America's Crowded Chickens More Space to Roam
A new agreement with egg farmers could usher in the first federal law addressing the treatment of farm animals. This is nothing to squawk at.
Lifestyle
Since 1995, GOP Congresspeople Have Received More Than $5 Million in Farm Subsidies
Democrats have received less than a tenth of that. But the debate over farm subsidies is complicated.
Design
How to Start a Crop Mob
There’s a lot up for debate in the realm of agriculture these days, but there’s one thing no one can dispute: Farming is hard, often lonely work....
Lifestyle
Keep Your Biotech Off My Beets
The genetically modified organism debate continues this week after a federal judge in California ruled today that the government must conduct a...
Environment
Attack of the Killer Algae? The Risks of Creating Biofuels
When the organisms we're engineering to make biofuels escape into the wild, could they irrevocably alter healthy ecosystems?
Lifestyle
Food Studies: Meet Claire, Who Combines Her MFA in Creative Writing with a Minor in Sustainable Agriculture
GOOD's sixth Food Studies blogger is Claire, who's reporting on propane-powered weed torches and baby-plant spaceships from snowy Minnesota.
News
Video of Stephen Colbert Testifying Before Congress
As we mentioned yesterday, Stephen Colbert testified before Congress on the subject of legalizing immigrant farmworkers to reduce worker exploitation.
Technology
Digital Green Advances Indian Agriculture Through Viral Video
Digital Green uses a novel tactic to spread good farming practices in rural Indian village: make educational videos in which area farmers star.
Business
Cape Town's Women Take the Lead in Farm-Focused Social Enterprise
“It took many years to get to the point where black people in South Africa accepted that organic was different and valuable."
Lifestyle
Feast Your Eyes: Strawberry Dust Devil Ballet
Watch this moment of unexpected beauty, as a mini-tornado lifts plastic sheeting off a strawberry field and twirls it through the air.
Lifestyle
Los Angeles Announces a Sweeping Local Food Policy
L.A. is home to both a food desert and some of the largest food production in the country. New policy-and an exciting event-try to close the gap.
Lifestyle
Global Warming Isn't Affecting Your Food Supply. At Least Not Yet.
The heat's not on North America's food supply yet. But that's no excuse to ignore the pressing problem.
