There are plenty of agriculture buzzwords floating around the news these days (Agroforestry! Vertical farming! Sustainable intensification!), and it can be challenging to keep all these different ...
FEET FIRST: Jeff Poppen, the "Barefoot Farmer," returns to Asheville July 9-10 to lead an intensive workshop on biodynamic principles at Living Web Farms in Mills River. Photo courtesy of Living Web ...
It's definitely going that direction at one estate vineyard in Washington state wine country. At Hedges Family Estate in the renowned Red Mountain AVA, the move to biodynamic grape growing practices ...
“The miracle is nature’s waiting for us to do the right thing.” – Brook LeVan, Sustainable Settings The canary yellow flag that flickers in the wind above the rustic farm buildings and golden fields ...
HOG HEAVEN: At her Wild Mountain Farm in Barnardsville, Megan Naylor labors to create a closed system that nurtures livestock, plants, the soil and humans. Photo by Megan Naylor “I spent most of my ...
Does planting a cow horn full of fresh manure in a vineyard make a better wine than a winery using more conventional farming techniques? Kevin Morrisey won’t quite make that claim, but he does think ...
Producers in every wine region around the world will tell you that they work with grapes that are farmed in environmentally safe ways. There are many wines today that are produced from organically ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. the making of Preparation 503 began just after dawn on a cold October morning at ...
An octogenarian biodynamic farmer battles bureaucracy in his quest to preserve Danish Red dairy cattle, and to practice crop and animal husbandry in a respectful manner, in the inspiring, good-looking ...