Freshwater alga, Chlorella vulgaris, is a new superfood with a small environmental footprint. The rise in interest in this alga stems from its applications across multiple areas of farming. In Japan, ...

Most herbs take between a week and one month to germinate, which makes them some of the first you should start among other ...

However, you can still grow in a greenhouse. February is the perfect time to get started on late spring transplants, and it’s also a good time to grow quick-maturing crops for the early spring market.

What comes to mind when you think of Campbell Soup? You might picture cans of tomato soup or perhaps an iconic Andy Warhol print of them. You probably don’t think much about the ingredients that went ...

The history of the sugar beet has far more twists and turns than you might expect, from Napoleonic orders to anti-slavery movements. One of the newer uses for the sugar beet lies in using a mixture of ...

Soil salinization is a serious problem, especially in areas with less rainfall and increasingly arid climates. As climates change, flooding becomes more prevalent – another factor that leads to high ...

There are five key rules to follow when making bourbon whiskey. First, it must be distilled in the United States, and it must be a grain mixture with at least 51 percent corn mash. There can be no ...

What is graywater, exactly? Household wastewater from washing machines, bathroom sinks, showers, and bathtubs is considered “gray” because it is only lightly soiled and poses a minimal health risk. As ...

A dearth of children in the wake of the Great Plague, some historians surmise, led farmers to use adults to guard their crops, some keeping watch in straw huts as Native Americans did, evident in an ...

My mother’s family is from a small farming community near Champaign, Illinois. Though I grew up a Navy kid and lived all over the world, I always loved coming to the farm. As a child, I was fascinated ...

From 2014 to 2021, Minnesota farmer James Wolf raised organic soybeans, corn and wheat, selling the grains to farmers across the midwest, both for seed and animal feed. Selling organic grain allowed ...