American industrial agriculture may be standing in the way of international cooperation. “In the United States, they put anything in their mouths,” Jean Cabaret, an organic farmer who lives in […]
Are We Round-up Ready?
The other day my sister-in-law, who’s a nuclear physicist, overheard me talking to her daughter about the corn we grow at Great Country Farms. “Most of the corn in America […]
Monarch Waystation
Of all the things to protect, why butterflies? For their good looks? For their symbolic value as things that undergo dramatic change inside cocoons? Yes. And because they’re good pollinators. […]
Bundy’s Bees: A Different Kind of Agricultural Worker
3e+10. That’s the number my calculator gave me when I tried to figure out how many flowers Bill Bundy’s bees might pollenate each day. I don’t know what 3e+10 means. Bundy tends […]
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