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In Defense of Wasps 

When I am talking to folks about wasps, I usually have to stop a couple... (more)

Anna Lovat
September 20, 2023
Meet the Poultry Farmer Teaching Others How to Make Regenerative Farming Add...

In 2019, Jeff Siewicki was a pharmacist who never planned to become a farmer. His... (more)

Kelcie Ottoes
September 8, 2023
Livestock are Dying in the Heat. This Little-Known Farming Method Offers a...

Josh Payne planted chestnut trees six years ago. The rows of nut trees haven’t fully... (more)

John McCracken, Grist
August 28, 2023
Potato Virus? Call in the Dogs

Andrea Parish holds back Zora, her black Labrador Retriever, who is coiled like a spring.... (more)

Erica Browne Grivas
August 7, 2023
Impulse Chickens and Trendy Goats: The Pitfalls of Modern Homesteading

When the lockdowns began at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, many people found themselves... (more)

Kirsten Lie-Nielsen
August 2, 2023
4-H Goat Controversy Raises Questions About Kids and Terminal Livestock Sales

One sweltering day last July, two Shasta County, Calif. sheriff’s deputies struck out on a... (more)

Sheila Pell
June 27, 2023
Meet the Milkweed Man on a Quest to Help Monarch Butterflies

Before dawn on an October morning, a thick fog wends its way down the many... (more)

Kirsten Lie-Nielsen
June 23, 2023
Cows Have a Methane Problem. Dairy Farmers are Hoping New Innovations Can...

Samantha Craun oversees 1,200 acres and roughly 900 cows at her farm in eastern Tennessee.... (more)

Emily Baron Cadloff
June 8, 2023
Wary of Wolves, Some Western Ranchers Are Returning to Life on the...

In the fall of 2014, when the Elzinga family of Alderspring Ranch were bringing their... (more)

Sara Ventiera
June 5, 2023