There are plenty of agriculture buzzwords floating around the news these days (Agroforestry! Vertical farming! Sustainable intensification!), and it can be challenging to keep all these different ...

Over the last several years there has been increasing interest in produce and food products that have been grown by organic and environmentally friendly methods. The wine world is not immune to this ...

Biodynamic farming combines the relationship between the plants, animals and soil to use a farm’s resources instead of importing materials. It includes using herbs, minerals and cow manure to ...

According to Encyclopedia Britanica [1], intensive agriculture is, in agricultural economics, a system of cultivation that uses a large amount of labor and capital in relation to the surface area of ...

“The miracle is nature’s waiting for us to do the right thing.” – Brook LeVan, Sustainable Settings The canary yellow flag that flickers in the wind above the rustic farm buildings and golden fields ...

This article by Sanjib Chaudhary was originally published in Nepali Times and an edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. Across Nepal, the soil has ...

It's definitely going that direction at one estate vineyard in Washington state wine country. At Hedges Family Estate in the renowned Red Mountain AVA, the move to biodynamic grape growing practices ...

One thing you can be sure of regarding biodynamic wine—it’s as all-natural as you can get. For a bit more depth on the work that goes into this viticultural practice I quizzed two winemakers about the ...

We all like to pat ourselves on the back for shopping at farmers markets, buying organic produce, finding purveyors who care about how their farming practices affect the Earth, etc. I’m one of those ...