On sugar cane production.

Collective ownership gives power back to poor farmers.

An amateur seed bank has rescued countless rare varieties, but now it may be running out of time.

After Brexit, the obsessions of Jake Fiennes could change how Britain uses its land.

The unlikely rise of the 1983 national croquet champions.

On the grief that comes with losing livestock.

Two friends contend with mistakes both past and present.

Stewart Resnick is the biggest farmer in the United States, a fact he has tried to keep hidden while he has shaped what we eat, transformed California’s landscape, and ruled entire towns. But the one thing he can’t control is what he’s most dependent on—water.

Steve Acheson finds a different form of protest.

“So there we were, two women armed with nothing but master’s degrees and suburban upbringings, pointing our iPhones at a wild animal, trying to figure out what the fuck to do next.”

An essay on wielding the scythe.

Activists hoped President Obama would fight for stronger regulation. Eight years later, they’re still waiting.

With prices spiralling, poachers are digging for ginseng in the North Carolina hills.

Are megafarmers Lynda and Stewart Resnick visionary philanthropists or shrewd water barons?

On the relationship between conservation, British farmers, and a possible Brexit.

A woman's dead father appears at a farmer's market.

There’s a new endangered species in rural America: veterinarians.

It takes a gallon of water to grow a single almond. Yet in drought-ravaged California, hedge funds are racing to plant as many new trees as they can.

A Georgia chicken farmer hoped to find financial independence in ethical foie gras. Things got weird.

The water’s nearly gone in the San Joaquin Valley, and an old farmer sees the writing on the wall.

Antibiotics made modern farming possible. But as “societal drugs,” their use by any individual affects us all.

What undercover investigators saw inside a factory farm.

Raising a cow on an industrial feedlot.

The “subtly radical” open-source plant movement.