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Business
Why Farmers Are Embracing Social Media: the #AgChat Story
Farmers are fighting rural isolation—and cow conundrums—with social media to make better food, and food policy.
Lifestyle
Garden Sharing: Farming Meets Social Networks
What happens when 90 million users stop growing fake vegetables on Farmville-and started getting real food from social networks.
Education
Repurposing Abandoned Schools Project Winner: A Farm to Table Urban Food Center
Caroline Hadilaksono turns an abandoned school into an "all-in-one ecosystem" where people can grow, distribute, and enjoy good food. See her design.
Lifestyle
Gag Order: Why States Are Banning Factory-Farm Whistleblowers
Lawmakers wanted to crack down on the folks who hurt their bottom line: animal welfare advocates.
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.
Environment
To Heat a Greenhouse, Add Some Chickens
At Vermont’s Green Mountain College, students designed and built a chicken coop that helps heat the college farm's greenhouse.
Lifestyle
Need Work? Take a Farm Job
An offer 15 million unemployed Americans can refuse Harrington is in the heart of the Maine’s blueberry country, a place where close to 8,000...
Lifestyle
Feast Your Eyes: California's Central Valley Is a Dust Bowl
Documentary photographer Matt Black takes incredible portraits of the forgotten people on some of the most productive farmland in California.
Lifestyle
Feast Your Eyes: 16 Cents of Each Dollar You Spend on Food Goes to the Farm. What Happens to the Rest?
A new report from the USDA reveals the economic underpinnings of our food system.
Cities
Ideas for Cities: Preservation ReFARM
Preservation ReFARM Cities could pass laws that require shrinking less densely populated areas, and recognize that not every building needs to be...
Environment
Making Urban Farming Scalable With Fish
Why aquaponics may be the future of urban farming, and one solution to our local food problem. The majority of Americans live in urban environs....
Environment
How Young Scientists Are Determining the Future of Organic Farming—and Craft Beer
One of the country's first organic plant breeding fellowships is funding a Washington State University graduate student studying barley for beer.
Design
Farming the Front Lawn
Spending an extended period of time around dirt, explains artist/activist/architect Fritz Haeg, is a deviant act. “In our society we are not...
Environment
Kansas City Pioneers New Models for Urban Farms
Last week, we linked to an article from Earth Island about the challenges faced by urban farmers working to stay afloat in the current economic...
