On this day in 1843, the first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand→

Central Valley Business Times: …Even though Americans are concerned about obesity, the stand-alone marketing of a “healthy benefit” to mainstream consumers isn’t enough to→

Seems that today, you almost resell anything if you turn something old into something chic: Three retired sisters have found a way to give→

Mother Nature Network has an interesting interview with worm wrangler Bentley Christie of RedWormComposting. Bentley Christie is a blogger, entrepreneur and composting worm guru.→

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Fast Company: Photovoltaic cells are best known for turning sunlight into electrical power—and they’re big business. But did you know that there’s a type→

Business Week: Dean Sparks is a 49-year-old farmer near Binghamton, N.Y., who for decades has relied on wholesale distributors to buy his organic eggs,→

If you think farmers only grow things like apples, and oranges and peaches, you have no idea. Tablet Magazine (A New Read on Jewish→

If, like me, you keep track of the price of commercial chicken feed, you know that for some hipsters, raising chickens in your backyard→

Way before Disneyland, an ostrich farm in Pasadena was a huge tourist attraction. Edwin Cawston courted the early-20th-century public’s fascination with exotic foreign creatures→

British farmers are aiming to milk profits and boost productivity with this latest agricultural machine – a car wash for cows. The industrial-sized device→

Behind every farm there is a unique story and for Mike and Shannon Wiggins it all started with a couple goats. Their daughter became→

What would Disneyland be like if children could work in the mines with the Seven Dwarves, engineer the Disneyland Railroad, or sweep out Sleeping→

StarTribune.com: Schroeder was a first-time gardener a few years ago when she got an unpleasant surprise while inspecting her produce. Many of the melons→

NY Times: “A billion customers in the world,” Dr. Paul Polak told a crowd of inventors recently, “are waiting for a $2 pair of→

A reader asked: Hi Dane. I’ve been reading the site and newsletter for years now, and I’ve always wondered… what do you do when→

CBS News: Major manufacturers long ago gave up producing equipment for small dairies, which seemed to be a thing of the past. But with→

There’s a small family farm on eighty acres in western Kansas, that unlike its neighbors who might farm corn, or cattle, this farm has→

Chances are that you’ve seen someone, somewhere with a bronzed pair of ‘baby’s first shoes’. For many bronzing is synonymous with childhood. Many people→

Aerial photography sounds like a wonderful way to spend the day. I’m envious of the pilot in this story: Sitting in the corner of→