Modern Farmer

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How To Make Pumpkin Seed Miso

Check out this delicious fall-inspired recipe from The Noma Guide to Fermentation.

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How To Make Butternut Squash Vinegar

Take a look at The Novo Cookbook for more autumnal eats!

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How To Make Apple Kombucha

René Redzepi and David Zilber talk us through how to make a delicious Fall kombucha.

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Fermenting Fascination: An Interview with Noma’s René Redzepi

The famous foraging chef reveals new secrets in his book devoted to fermented foods.

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Up-cycle that salmon skin!

From shrimp shells to pineapple leaves, these second-life products are breathing new life into refuse.

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Small Farms, Big Payoff

A new breed of CEOs sees the value of investing in a homegrown future. Canadian billionaire Andre Desmarais’s farm may include works of art such as stained-glass windows by Quebec painter Marc Seguin sprucing up the pig barn at La Ferme des Quatre-Temps, an hour south of Montreal. But it also h...

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Should We Just Ban “Best By” Labels on Food?

A UK supermarket chain vows to stop using them.

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Can Cities Produce Enough Food to Feed Their Citizens?

Metropolitan areas may not seem like farming hubs. But they might surprise you.

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Meet the Woman Using Bitcoin Technology to Transform the Food Industry

Bitcoin is the most well-known application of a technology known as “blockchain”. It turns out this novel approach to data management has a host of other — perhaps more noble — uses.

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Meet the Modern Farmer: Tom Culton, Culton Organics

Up close and personal with one of America’s most fascinating farmers.

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Agronomics: Turn your Soil into Paydirt

Looking for a new way to drive more revenue to your operation? Consider renting out the farm—or the barn with short term farmstays.

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A New System Can Predict Crop Yields Better Than the USDA

Better predictions are, well, better.

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Colombia’s Coca Production Is Growing, Despite Efforts

The crop is larger than it’s ever been, and that’s bad news.

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Tom Chappell’s Ramblers Way knits

Whether toothpaste or cardigans, Chappell is selling the idea that businesses should not exist just for the pursuit of profit.

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Federal Court Rules in Favor of North Carolina’s Farmworker Unions

Farmworkers need unions more than ever.

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Travel: Carbondale, Colorado

This 6,000-person town in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley is turning into a hot getaway spot for ranch-loving, beer-swilling weekenders.

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On Eating Animals

A charismatic poultry farmer featured in the film Eating Animals dreams big to preserve endangered heritage chickens and turkeys on the Kansas prairie