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To Heat a Greenhouse, Add Some Chickens

At Vermont’s Green Mountain College, students designed and built a chicken coop that helps heat the college farm's greenhouse.

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Big Egg Deal Gives America's Crowded Chickens More Space to Roam Big Egg Deal Gives America's Crowded Chickens More Space to Roam

A new agreement with egg farmers could usher in the first federal law addressing the treatment of farm animals. This is nothing to squawk at.

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Why Farmers Are Embracing Social Media: the #AgChat Story

Farmers are fighting rural isolation—and cow conundrums—with social media to make better food, and food policy.

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Repurposing Abandoned Schools Project Winner: A Farm to Table Urban Food Center

Caroline Hadilaksono turns an abandoned school into an "all-in-one ecosystem" where people can grow, distribute, and enjoy good food. See her design.

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Feast Your Eyes: 16 Cents of Each Dollar You Spend on Food Goes to the Farm. What Happens to the Rest?

A new report from the USDA reveals the economic underpinnings of our food system.

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Photo: California's Central Valley Is a Dust Bowl Feast Your Eyes: California's Central Valley Is a Dust Bowl

Documentary photographer Matt Black takes incredible portraits of the forgotten people on some of the most productive farmland in California.

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Garden Sharing: Farming Meets Social Networks

What happens when 90 million users stop growing fake vegetables on Farmville-and started getting real food from social networks.

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Farming the Front Lawn

Spending an extended period of time around dirt, explains artist/activist/architect Fritz Haeg, is a deviant act. "In our society we are not...

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Making Urban Farming Scalable With Fish

Why aquaponics may be the future of urban farming, and one solution to our local food problem. The majority of Americans live in urban environs....

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Ideas for Cities: Preservation ReFARM

Preservation ReFARM Cities could pass laws that require shrinking less densely populated areas, and recognize that not every...