Consumption Archives - Modern Farmer
Study Finds Black Farmers Have Lost $326 Billion in Land

And that’s likely a conservative estimate.

Dan Nosowitz
May 7, 2022
The Surprising Home of Arbor Day Celebrates 150 Years of Planting Trees

Nebraska City wasn’t known for trees. That is, until a former US Secretary of Agriculture... (more)

Emily Baron Cadloff
April 29, 2022
A Shift to Farming Made Our Ancestors Shorter

Humans lost inches in height when they switched from hunting and foraging to farming, likely... (more)

Lindsay Campbell
April 28, 2022
Tobacco Field Where Martin Luther King Jr. Worked Preserved as Historic Site

The Connecticut property, where King worked in college, has important connections to the Civil Rights... (more)

Emily Baron Cadloff
January 17, 2022
Farmer Sentiment Is at Its Lowest Point in Three Years

Optimism for the future is waning.

Dan Nosowitz
June 21, 2019
The Stoned Tourist: Weed-Themed Travel Companies Explode in Canada

Five marijuana-laced travel experiences from your cannabis-friendly northern neighbor

Brian Barth
April 30, 2019
A Late Winter Getaway in South Carolina’s Lowcountry

Off-season crowds are light in this subtropical slice of America, but the culinary charms are... (more)

Brian Barth
March 19, 2019
5 Places to Visit for Your Next Winter Escape

We're in vacation mode.

Brian Barth
December 28, 2018
Rock, Paper, Cod

When the cod stocks collapsed, the population also plummeted in the fishing villages around Newfoundland.... (more)

Amy Rosen
September 13, 2018