Tracing its roots back over a century and a half, the story of Wild Valley Farms is one of perseverance, innovation, and a deep connection to the land. When the founders first set foot in the U.S., ...

Climate change is threatening modern life in ways we are still finding, from food security to the economy to everyday living.

Near the banks of the Delaware River in northeast Pennsylvania, Steven Schwartz, his silver hair tied back beneath his hat, is searching for a seed. It’s ramp season, and finding one of the tiny black ...

In January 2008, just after a meeting of the Sustainable Agriculture Coalition at Asilomar on the gorgeous mid-California Coast, I set out to explore one of our nation’s breadbaskets – or better yet – ...

In the rugged Tumacácori mountain region 45 minutes south of Tucson, the Wild Chile Botanical Area (WCBA) was established in 1999 to protect and study the chiltepin pepper—the single wild relative of ...

When one plan is destroyed, create an even better one!

Giles Oldroyd receives funding from Bill and Melinda Gates Agricultural Innovations, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, the Allan and Gill ...

An untrained eye would have overlooked the cluster of silvery green leaves poking up through a pile of smooth rocks on the banks of the Spokane River. But wild plant forager Aubrey Mundell immediately ...

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