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Bees for Business named as world's first
Carbon Neutral bee farm
"Bees are animals; they require our attention and respect, and it is our privilege to handle them, not a right." 

If not for the vagaries of fashion we would still be using alexanders today, but it was replaced in the daily kitchen by celery, much as fat hen was replaced by its cousin spinach. 




Hill farming, hogs, and hope - High Farndale
“You don’t want to be hill farmers, do you?”  This was the reaction of one local when Peter Mawson and his partner, Nicola, decided on a drastic change in direction and bought a tumble-down farm in the uplands of North Yorkshire.  




Fruits of the Forage - preserves and preservation
"The best thing is finding the fruit, these forgotten orchards. A bit like a Victorian botanical explorer searching for new exotic plants, but searching for forgotten heritage fruits here in the UK."

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Bolsonaro hands over indigenous land demarcation to agriculture ministry

via Mongabay

Honeybee parentage is truly wild
via Modern Farmer

Recruiting ants to fight weeds on the farm
via Science Daily


‘Life is miserable’: even when there’s food in South Sudan, many can’t afford it
via The Washington Post

Lebanese bakers with special needs master German rye and Stollen
via Reuters

Think immigrants are taking our jobs? Try picking strawberries for a day
via The New Food Economy


Like fruit, vegetables, and almonds? Scientists have bad news
via Mother Jones 

Looking forward: top food and agriculture stories for 2019
via FoodPrint

Israeli grad students develop algae-enriched falafel to compete with meat
via The Spoon


Mongolia, cheese, and the future of dairy in the era of climate change
via Civil Eats

‘It’s God’s plan’: the man who dreams of bringing intensive chicken farming to Africa
via The Guardian

Agroforestry helps Tajikistan farmers overcome resource pressures
via Mongabay


Buffering desert cities from urban heat island effects and global warming
via Anthropocene

What a Gold Rush-era orchard could mean for the future of food
via National Geographic

It's 'going to end with me': the fate of gulf fisheries in a warming world
via Inside Climate News

Honey: the precious nectar that links tradition with the future of the new generation
via Slow Food


'Ghosts' of fishing past can upend conservation
via Futurity