The Ivy Creek Foundation will host its Farm Day event on Oct. 19 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Ivy Creek Natural Area and Historic River View Farm. The event is designed to celebrate and experience ...

DYERSVILLE, Iowa — Do you have a kid obsessed with tractors? Do you find yourself craning to see tractors in the fields during the harvest? Does the sight of a tractor in action give you a warm ...

This Lumbee family farm uses sustainable farming and herbal medicine practices to preserve their Native American heritage. They grow fruits, vegetables, and herbs using natural fertilizers and pest ...

Rancho Santa Fe musician and author Alex Woodard’s new book “Ordinary Soil” is a piece of historical fiction, tracking a family through several generations on a stretch of farmland in the Oklahoma ...

I grew up on a dairy farm in Athens. My father milked about eighteen Guernsey cows twice a day. Every cow in the barn had a name, and I still remember a few. Farms with herds that size are a thing of ...

The old, epic story of agriculture in North America had two heroes, long sung and much venerated. One was human ingenuity. The other was corn. That story went something like this. On this continent, ...

After 200,000 years of hunting and gathering, a history-defining decision was made. Starting roughly 12,000 years ago, at least seven different groups of humans independently began to settle down and ...

SURRY, Va. — I recently visited the Farm and Forestry Museum at Chippokes State Park to learn more about the history of farming in Virginia. I got a museum tour from Shannon Carlin, the Chief Ranger ...

William and Malya Levin had their first date in a coffee shop in Brooklyn. William opened the date with a fairly unique pickup line. “William said to me, ‘I’m descended from the first successful ...

This story was published in The Palm Beach Post on Feb. 7, 2005. Editor's note: Palm Beach County leads every county east of the Mississippi in agricultural sales, according to the Palm Beach County ...