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Herewith some passages from " Less is Enough " - an excerpt in Harper's Magazine from the foreword to an upcoming republicati...

This is an actual documentary about the real world, not a fictional docudrama about an alternative earth.  The trailer is fairly explanatory...

If I had goats, I'd want to have a goat tower.  You can read about the (unexciting) history of such towers at Wikipedia .

As reported by Bloomberg : “This is a working farm,” boasts a sign at Rushett Farm. At first glance, the scene appears to be just that: A tr...

The embed is a screencap from Facebook, which I haven't tracked to the primary source, but I quite agree with the expressed sentiment. I...

I watched this program on Minnesota public television while on a recent vacation back to my home area, and was delighted to find that is is ...

"The little tracts of wilderness grow on Maple Edge Farm in southwest Iowa, where the Bakehouse family cultivates 700 acres of corn, so...

A new version of the world’s first raspberry-picking robot , a four-armed machine powered by artificial intelligence and able to do the job ...

The video above is rather interesting.  It began when someone browsing Google Earth spotted a geographic anomaly in Madagascar and wondered ...

Photo credit: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images, via the "Best Photographs of the Day" at The Guardian . Rapeseed ( Brassica napu...

This is an interesting book, recommended to me by a friend in my gardening Zoom group.  In Pig Years , a young woman recounts her experience...

Human urine... is full of the same nutrients that plants need to flourish . It has a lot more, in fact, than Number Two, with almost none of...

The morel mushroom is known as one of the world’s most coveted edible mushrooms . During the last hundred years, it has only with limited su...

After Beatrix Potter moved to Hill Top farm to live, she took up gardening as a primary occupation (using her writing to support her garden...

A neighbor dropped off this carton of locally-sourced eggs for us this morning.  They provide a nice example of the proper use of the adject...

They are different.  Image cropped for size from the one at the via shows eggs from old hens on the left, young hens on the right.  Comment...

Excerpts from an article in Harper's : By the 1930s, five sixths of the original indigenous animal population that existed in the United...

"Once Olaf was in Ireland on some warlike expedition with his fleet.  And when they required to make a raid on the shore for food, some...

Excerpts from an interesting longread at The New York Times : If there’s a plant perfectly suited to outcompete the farmers, researchers and...