Inspiring stories of people making a difference in their communities with food, farming or gardening are showing up all over.  When the person you marry, shares that passion and commitment, it's exceptional.

How will we feed the world in the future when we are doing such a poor job of it now? Many of us are fortunate enough to not worry that our own families will get enough to eat. And some are fortunate that they can do something to improve the prospects ...

  - Farmers Markets could be the best thing to happen to Agriculture this century. Some will argue that point because they don’t see how conventional agriculture with large scale commodity production, supplying supermarkets and restaurant chains,

Can we grow up, get a good education, find a job, start a family and still raise livestock? More and more are doing just that. While attention is focused on how old the average farmer is, there is a movement a foot with more young people finding a way ...

No matter the size of the farm, access to information about whatever is being grown can make the difference between simply "sustaining" or thriving.  While technology at first favors giant enterprises, advances have put the answers from the "Cloud" lit...

“There is no box outside of which to think.” This is a motto of the founder of Fresher Sacramento, Rabbi David Azen and perhaps his response to the admonition to Abraham in Genesis to be a blessing to all the families of the Earth.

Human evolution has had its diet du jour for thousands of years. Through the ages one would expect that life expectancy, brain size and height would have improved with the advent of agriculture, 10,000 years ago. That assumption would be wrong.

  - The next time you stare  into your morning coffee, stop to think that there is more to coffee than the ground beans. The fruit that surrounds the bean on the plant is highly nutritious and is now used to produce a high quality flour - ...

Just try to find anyplace in the world that doesn't celebrate farm to table in one way or the other. It's a challenge.  For example you can take a flight to Katmandu, then a propeller plane for another hour or so  and top it off with mules trailing up ...

When New Zealand was settled, pioneers from the British Isles missed the red deer that they had hunted in Scotland. So wild red deer were corralled in Scotland and put on boats for the over 11,000 mile journey to New Zealand where they were released an...