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Lifestyle
Best of the Blogs: Mammoth's Backyard Farm Service
Grow-your-own is great, but not all of us have the time. What if we re-purposed the lawn service industry to tend a distributed backyard farm network?
Lifestyle
Superb Idea: Supermarket Vegetable Packaging Helps You Grow Your Own
British art student Ben Huttly's vegetable packaging is 100 percent biodegradable; what's more, the labels are embedded with seeds.
Lifestyle
Factory Farming Birds' Nests to Make More Soup
Custom built concrete birds' nest factories are taking over entire towns in South-East Asia as demand for edible bird's nest soup booms.
Lifestyle
Food for Thinkers: Five Borough Farm
Nevin Cohen is tilling new soil: He's designing New York City's first-ever comprehensive plan for urban agriculture.
Lifestyle
Donald Tyson, Chicken King, Dies
The company he built, Tyson Foods, is now the largest meat-producing company in the world.
Lifestyle
Future Foragers: Dunne & Raby Redesign Human Digestion to Redefine "Food"
British duo Dunne & Raby explain how they use design to start a conversation about the future of food.
Lifestyle
Low-Carbon Agriculture: Brazil Shows the Way
Highlights from scientist Gustavo Mozzer's presentation at Agriculture Day in Cancun.
News
Edge of Progress Tour: An Introduction
Now that we're a day into the Edge of Progress Tour, we wanted to take a moment to introduce ourselves and say thanks.
Lifestyle
Video: In Detroit, Where Trance Meets Urban Farming
Disaster tourists have long been flocking to Detroit's decayed infrastructure in search of ruin porn. Is all this attention a good thing?
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.
Lifestyle
Bigger (And Better?) Sustainable Farming
Frederick Kaufman looks at the ambitious, if obscure, consortium called the Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops that pairs megafarms and...
Lifestyle
Using Cows to Pull Bangladeshi Farmers out of Poverty
Most rural Bangladeshis own an incredibly valuable asset; they just need to learn how to monetize it. More than 115 million Bangladeshis live in...
The Community Board
Mobile Food Collective
The Mobile Food Collective is a project designed to bring people together around food, and inspire a new food culture around growing, cooking,...
Lifestyle
2010: The Summer of Raw Food Raids
At 7 a.m. on June 30, 20 agents raided a Ventura County farmhouse and confiscated the family's computer. That same morning, the FDA and the FBI...
The Community Board
Why isn't anyone talking about mycorrhizae?
Mycorrhizae are fungi that form an extremely beneficial symbiotic relationship with almost all plants in our organic gardens. I stumbled upon it...
The Community Board
Art + Farming + You = Trouser House
If you were going to tackle "issues" in your community, what would they be? Clearly the GOOD community advocates solutions to a variety of...
Education
Farming the Desert
Earlier this spring, a group of students from the Stanford Graduate School of Business took a trip through California and Nevada. Their mission:...
Cities
A Farm in Every Window
Barely a year old, the Windowfarms project is art come to life. First researched and developed in the South Williamsburg kitchen of co-founder...
