“Nature has many unknowns,” said the well-combed man in the black glasses and the avocado/boysenberry tie, “but one certainty is that tomatoes and fish do not have sex with each […]
What to Feed the World?
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 […]
Meet Corn Earworm
We thought you might like to get acquainted with the creature that helped itself to some of your peaches-and-cream sweet corn this summer: corn earworm. According to the Cooperative Extension […]
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 […]
Solar Farming at Great Country Farms
Imagine this: your Tesla’s running low on power so before crossing the mountain you stop in Bluemont to top off your battery at the only public charging station between Leesburg […]
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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