Food-Safety Initiative Might Keep Parasites Out of Your Salad
Usually if you're buying a berry smoothie or grabbing a salad to go, you don't stop and ask where the produce was grown, or what kind of safety measures are in place at the farm. But it seems like more and more outbreaks — from tainted spinach to parasite-infested bagged salad — are hitting states across the nation.
Your Greek Yogurt Problem Is Really a Problem
Fact: Greek yogurt is so hot right now. You know it, Jamie Lee Curtis knows it, John Stamos knows it. But Greek yogurt has a dark side: Making it produces acid whey, and acid whey is a huge fucking problem.
Lady Farmer Agri-Smut Exists, E-I-E-Ohhhhhhhh
There's a new-ish sub-genre of romance novels written by and for ladies who love to get dirty — both literally and figuratively. Deemed "Rural Romance", the novels are most popular in Australia, where publishers are furiously adding collections of agricultural sexiness to their rosters.
‘Weed Dating’ Is the Biggest Conceptual Letdown You May Ever Read About
The phrase "weed dating" probably strikes a particular chord in your lexicon — the chord that wants to get stoned and go to a fondue restaurant with a particularly good conversationalist. Or go sit in your local aquarium's IMAX theater and watch the latest iteration of a 45-minute movie about the bottom of the ocean.…
Colombian Company Uses Butterflies To Change Women's Lives
A valley in Palmira, Colombia, which was once war-torn and filled with little economic opportunity has been transformed by two women, Patricia Restrepo and her daughter Vanessa. Ten years ago, the women started a butterfly export business called Alas de Colombia after they noticed that there was a growing demand for…
The Butterflies Are Dying
Farmers' new, extremely effective methods of killing milkweed are having an unintended effect — a decline in the population of monarch butterflies, which lay their eggs on the weed. Also at risk are rainbows, ponies, shooting stars, and the entire oeuvre of Lisa Frank.
Pioneer Woman Makes Blogging Look Like Paradise
She hasn't quite got the old-media fame of mommy blogger Heather Armstrong, but Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond is making headlines — and cash. What makes her life on the ranch so popular with readers?
A Gorgeous Harvest Gathering
[Herat, Afghanistan, November 8: Women separate stigmas from saffron crocuses during the harvest. Around 2500 farmers in eight provinces are working on saffron farms for export mostly to India and some European countries.]
So You Think You Want To Farm?
The recent resurgence in gardening, canning, butchering and home-brewing has given rise to another rustic, do-it-yourself pursuit: Taking a hiatus from one's real life to go work for a season on an organic farm.
Bird By Bird
[San Francisco, November 16. Image via Getty]
Fountain Of Youth
[Paris, October 1. Image via Getty]
On The Fence
[Cambria, Wisconsin; August 27. Image via Getty]
Friend Of A Farmer
[Sarajevo, August 26. Image via Getty]
It's Not Easy Being Green
[Berlin, May 25. Image via Getty]
Farmer Girl
A new Census of Agriculture shows that the number of female farmers has gone up 30 percent since 2002, an increase spurred in part by the growth of the organic market. [UPI]
Humane Society Prez Says A Vote For Obama Is A Vote For Animals
More precisely, Humane Society president Wayne Pacelle says Sarah Palin has a "very hostile record toward animal protection." But Pacelle has other fish to not fry this election day: the Humane Society is backing
Prop. 2, a California measure that would insure the humane treatment of farm animals. Pacelle's Ken-doll…
Women Are The Economic Backbone Of The New Rwanda
Those Rwandan women who are employed making "peace baskets" for Macy's — a job that helps them to repair the fissures of the ethnic civil war that saw the deaths of some 800,000 people fourteen years ago? They are part of a wave of women helping to lift Rwanda out of the poverty caused by the Hutu/Tutsi conflict. Not…
