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One of the world's largest rooftop farms is in Brooklyn
New York's skyline is getting greener and a whole lot more productive too.
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Modern Farmer explains why there are no GMO oats
Here's why it doesn't really matter that Cheerios are GMO-free.
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Peak Water and Food Scarcity
Although many analysts are concerned about the depletion of oil resources, the depletion of underground water resources poses a far greater threat to our future. While there are substitutes for oil,...
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Vermiponics roundup: The beauty of worms in hydroponic gardens (Video)
Worms (and their poop) are amazing things to behold, even more so when they are involved in food-growing hydroponic systems. Check out our video roundup of how to establish a vermiponics system at home.
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Does biochar live up to the hype?
From sequestering carbon to boosting food production, there have been a lot of big claims made for biochar. So what's the deal?
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GMO soybeans are bad for Mexico's beekeepers
Beekeepers in the Yucatan face a threat to their livelihoods as Europe rejects their products for GMO contamination.
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U.S.-India: Dealing With Monsoon Failure
While on a brief assignment for the USDA in India in 1965, Lester Brown pieced together the early clues of an impending famine. His urgent warning to the U.S. and Indian governments set in motion the...
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Organic winemaker faces jail for refusing to apply pesticide
The French agriculture ministry has sentenced Emmanuel Giboulot six months in jail for not taking preventative measures against a bacterial vine disease.
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Can you make a living from suburban, backyard aquaponics?
One family in suburban LA decided to convert their home into a working farm. Could they make enough to avoid getting a day job?
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Can the world feed China?
Overnight, China has become a leading world grain importer, set to buy a staggering 22 million tons in the 2013–14 trade year. As recently as 2006, China had a grain surplus and was exporting 10...
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Student-designed kit turns 10 gallon aquariums into aquaponic gardens
There are a lot of people who keep fish as pets. What if they all started to grow their own food too?
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All of Earth's land mammals by total weight in one graph (notice wild vs....
"Bacteria still outweigh us thousands to one--and that's not even counting the several pounds of them in your body."
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Can we prevent a food breakdown?
As food supplies have tightened, a new geopolitics of food has emerged—a world in which the global competition for land and water is intensifying and each country is fending for itself.
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Crowdsourcing an online compendium of small farmer innovation
Small farmers are, by necessity, resourceful innovators. A new project aims to record their innovations so they can be disseminated widely.
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How to make zero carbon cheese
From solar power through Nissan LEAFs to a traditional cheese cave, a combination of old and new technology produces very green cheese.
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10 Things to Know About Food on World Food Day
October 16 is World Food Day. It offers the opportunity to strengthen national and international solidarity in the fight to end hunger, malnutrition, and poverty.
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Up to 100,000 cattle dead in South Dakota blizzard
A rare, early October blizzard has devastated the South Dakota rancher community, after as many as 100,000 head of cattle may have died following the October 3rd storm.
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Environmental and animal-rights advocates decry farm bill amendment
Amendment that overturns a California animal-rights law could have big consequences for GMO labeling.
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As China's demand for grain rises, its water tables drop
Reforming water usage will be key to feeding the world's population.
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A call for Canada to import fewer seeds
Farm experts worry that by importing seeds designed for other climates, Canada may lose the security represented by heritage varieties.
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Are perennial plants the crops of the future?
Mark Bittman's lasted coloum explores the potential for Perennial polysystems, or in other words, crops that don't need to be planted every year.
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Monsanto's agrochemicals are poisoning Argentines, but Monsanto blames...
Michael Warren and Natacha Pisarenko from The Associated Press have a blockbuster piece of reporting on the dozens of ways Monsanto's chemical fertilizers and pesticides are poisoning the people of...
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China and the Soybean Challenge
As China’s appetite for meat, milk, and eggs has soared, so too has its use of soybean meal. And since nearly half the world’s pigs are in China, the lion’s share of soy use is in pig feed.
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Oregon activists push for food instead of grass from farmers
If the proverbial muck ever does hit the fan, we'll need beans and grains in large amounts. A project in Oregon is convincing farmers to grow them.
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Moving Up the Food Chain
In every society where incomes have risen, the appetite for meat, milk, eggs, and seafood has generated an enormous growth in animal protein consumption. Today some 3 billion people are moving up the...
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Transforming a conventional orchard into a fruit forest
Stefan Sobkowiak is converting a 12-acre commercial orchard into a diverse, self-sustaining food forest. A new film aims to document how.
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Fully serviced bee sales/rentals help bee fans become hive owners
Beekeeping can be intimidating. Now honeybee enthusiasts can buy a hive, and have it cared for by expert beekeepers too.
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More farmers are ditching GMO crops
Even farmers who don't use organic practices are leaving genetically engineered crops behind.
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Is meat sustainable? Depends where you are.
New research maps out regional differences in the sustainability of livestock.
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Uh oh. Britain only has 25% of the bees it needs
A honeybee deficit is threatening the viability of farming in Europe, and researchers say that relying on wild pollinators is not a solution.
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