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Hands-down the 3 easiest ways to cook confusing vegetables
Hands-down the 3 easiest ways to cook confusing vegetables

Food & Water

Hands-down the 3 easiest ways to cook confusing vegetables

For those of us who aren’t exactly foodies, some of the vegetables that come in your CSA can be real head-scratchers. If you find yourself in...

5 Easy Ways to Save the Bees (And the World)
5 Easy Ways to Save the Bees (And the World)

Climate

5 Easy Ways to Save the Bees (And the World)

You may not know it yet, but you love and depend on bees. Here are some easy things that you can do to help them out.

The Dutch built a floating dairy farm, but you herd it here first
The Dutch built a floating dairy farm, but you herd it here first

From the Archives

The Dutch built a floating dairy farm, but you herd it here first

Engineers in Rotterdam think they've built the world's first floating dairy. But Heifer's seagoing cowboys were milking and mucking at sea decades...

Baby Alpaca Alert
Baby Alpaca Alert

Animals

Baby Alpaca Alert

We have an adorable new arrival at Heifer Urban Farm in Little Rock, Arkansas!

The Town That Banned Pesticides
The Town That Banned Pesticides

Climate

The Town That Banned Pesticides

In 2014, the Italian town of Mals made headlines when its citizens voted to ban pesticides. Philip Ackerman-Leist, a sustainable agriculture...

Traveling in the Tropics? Tread Carefully.
Traveling in the Tropics? Tread Carefully.

Climate

Traveling in the Tropics? Tread Carefully.

Around the world, 5 million people are bitten by venomous snakes each year.

Attack of the Killer Tomato Worms
Attack of the Killer Tomato Worms

Food & Water

Attack of the Killer Tomato Worms

This is the first year in a long while that we’ve tried to grow tomatoes at our house, and tomato hornworms seem intent on making it difficult....

How Much Water You Use VS. How Much You Actually Need
How Much Water You Use VS. How Much You Actually Need

Climate

How Much Water You Use VS. How Much You Actually Need

The good news is that 90 percent of people on the planet have access to “improved water,” which means they have water piped into their homes or...