Why Chicago Is Becoming The Country’s Urban Farming Capitol

When you walk into Farmed Here’s 90,000-square-foot warehouse in Bedford Park, a sleepy industrial outpost about 15 miles southwest of Chicago, you might not immediately register that you’re standing in the second coming of the locavore movement. But then you...

This Danish Farmer Converted 2,000 Acres to Organic Farmland

Hovmand-Simonsen is committed to “helping consumers learn to taste again and to appreciate the difference in flavors” as well as providing healthy food farmed with love. The inspiration behind her philosophy in farming came at a very young age. “When I turned 14 years...

How To Start Your Own Compost

Here in San Francisco, residents are given a free bin to collect compost materials. This is in an effort to eliminate all waste in landfills. Tara explains how you can make your own compost bin right in your backyard! Learn more about the Stuff to Blow Your Mind...

How Food and Forestry Are Adapting to a Changing Climate

  Across the country, farmers, ranchers and forest landowners have experienced a slow but steady uptick in their operational risks, due in part to a variety of impacts from a changing climate. Growing seasons in the Midwest, a region that includes my home state...

QUIZ: Recycle, compost or trash?

Recycling companies are facing a big challenge — while helping sustainability efforts, they’re losing money. One of the big problems is there is too much trash in the pile contaminating what could be good, reusable material. It makes it tougher for workers to...