Farm-to-school programs are designed to provide school cafeterias with farm-fresh food. The benefits are clear: Sourcing school lunches from local farms provides kids with healthier options; it boosts ...

They hang strings of pride flags and sell rainbow stickers to help pay for gender-affirming care, like hormone replacement therapy, for Eve. Sometimes, when parents and their teenagers pass the booth, ...

Driving north, the transition from Sonoma to Mendocino County is at first imperceptible, with nothing more than small highway signs to signal the change. Yet before long, a palpable sense of place ...

PALMER — Triplets run in the Valasek family, and now they run in their cow herd as well. About 15 years ago, John and Trish Valasek of Palmer added triplets — Josh, Kara and Whitney — to their family.

The summer solstice marks the official start to summer, and for many cultures around the world, this seasonal change is met with celebrations of fertility, abundance, and plentiful sun. For New ...

That year the brothers turned the milking barn into the brewing room and converted the dairy portion of the farm into a distillery. They started growing barley, winter rye and heirloom corn, along ...

Ukraine’s expansive black soil regions have historically been a cornerstone of global food production, earning the nation the ...

Soil on hilltops in this photo is lighter in color, revealing a loss of fertile topsoil. (Evan Thaler for NPR) Farming has destroyed a lot of the rich soil of America's Midwestern prairie. A team of ...

The Biden administration has opened up the East Coast to massive offshore wind development. One leader in this push to tackle climate change is New Jersey, but its planned wind farms would be in some ...

Although they go largely unrecognized and face barriers, Midwestern LGBTQ farmers persist as they reframe the image of the family farm. Shannon and Eve Mingalone avow that their farmers market booth ...