When soft-spoken rural chaplain Keith Ineson started a gay farmer’s helpline in the Cheshire countryside, he expected the worst.
Just a few years ago, the idea that people would spend their free time running virtual farms would have seemed ludicrous. Then FarmVille happened.
Malawi’s mango crop was mainly going uneaten. Until two Brits tapped into the Western thirst for smoothies.
21 Pictures of Hands Gently Cupping Dirt
Stock photography shows us how much plants enjoy being softly cradled.
Growing up on that farm inculcated in me a need for space, isolation, and silence, and gave me room to grow strange and introspective.
Meet the plant that’s beautiful, grows in poor soil, and more nutritious than a soy bean.
If you build a better bug trap, farmers will beat a path to your door.
Scenes From a Pot Farmers’ Market
Northern California’s first pot farmers’ market is like most other farmers’ markets, except you buy weed instead of kale and there’s the possibility you’ll go to prison ”“ which gives visits to the Organicann Harvest Market in Sonoma County a bit of an edge.
If everything works out, self-driving tractors will be rolling off the assembly line by September.
