Twelve years ago, rice breeders with Lundberg Family Farms crossed two rice plant “parents” in hopes of cultivating a better black pearl rice plant. After growing generations and generations of ...

Drawing on nearly 50 years of teaching organic farming and gardening, the staff of the UC Santa Cruz Farm & Garden Apprenticeship and invited authors have developed an updated and expanded resource ...

Whereas agriculture has existed for millennia, the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association has been around for just a handful of decades. The very notion of organics is barely older than MOFGA ...

Organic farming practices focus on using natural methods to cultivate crops, avoiding synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. This approach not only enhances the quality of food but also contributes to ...

Blazing Star Farm in Sunset operates under a guiding principle — soil has a memory. "It remembers if you till it too much, if you use too much fertilizer and kill it," said Alisha Delahoussaye, who ...

Organic wine is produced from grapes grown without pesticides or chemical fertilizers. Organic wine is also produced using organic standards throughout the winemaking process. In many viticulture ...