Food and Agriculture

Smoke it if you’ve got it: DIY meat for locavores

Smoking your own meat is easier than it sounds -- even if don't own any of the fancy gear. Try this DIY technique.

Meredith Bethune Food

Halliburton gets tripped up by Indian bean farmers*

Spiking demand for a bean used in the fracking process has been a huge boon for farmers in rural India -- but it's caused Halliburton's profits to tumble. (Don't worry. They'll survive.)

Philip Bump Agriculture

Tiny corn could be the next big thing

New science suggests that smaller crops might produce the same amount of food with much fewer resources.

John Upton Agriculture

Here is that piano made of bananas you asked for

I’m not going to make a joke about “playing with your food.” I think we’re all above that. But you should all know that some MIT students have developed a bit of tech that will allow you to make your excess produce into a musical instrument. Actually, the MaKey MaKey is even cooler than that […]

Jess Zimmerman Food

Morning chance of guilt, followed by afternoon desperation

Here is a happy recap of various depressing articles from the news today.

Philip Bump Food and Agriculture

Feds to farmers: Grow GMO beets or face sugar shortage

The good news: The USDA finally released an environmental impact review of genetically engineered sugar beets. The bad: Monsanto has already crowded out other seed makers.

Tom Laskawy Food and Agriculture

The food movement’s final frontier: Taking care of workers

A comprehensive new report looks at the people behind our food chain and finds low wages, little chance for advancement, and often deplorable working conditions.

Twilight Greenaway Food

How to make a fold-out window garden

This garden design gives you three times as much growing space as a window box.

Jess Zimmerman Agriculture

Pushing for local food in the farm bill: An interview with Chellie Pingree

Rep. Chellie Pingree introduced the Local Farms, Food, and Jobs Act to make sure small-scale agriculture doesn't get left out of this year's farm bill.

Enrique Gili Food

Mesmerizing video of flattened food

Filmmakers Hugo de Kok and Kay van Vree say they “where curious about de forms and shapes food makes when you flatten them.” (They’re Dutch.)