Food and Agriculture

How to Get Your Garden Winter-Ready

How to Get Your Garden Winter-Ready

Winter is rolling in, and in many zones, our once-prolific tomato and cucumber plants are well past their prime. While the summer growing season is over, gardens still benefit from a little TLC before the snow falls. Here’s how to prepare your garden for the winter to prepare for next year’s harvest.  Mulch The cold-weather […]

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    Impossible Foods Announces Plant-Based Hot Dogs

    Impossible Foods Announces Plant-Based Hot Dogs

    Impossible Foods, Inc., a company known for its plant-based burgers, is adding hot dogs to its lineup starting in 2024. Some New Yorkers will be able to try them this month before they officially hit stores. The plant-based hot dogs will be the company’s first new product of 2024, although the exact date that this […]

    Meat Companies and Lobbying Groups Plan to Present Meat as ‘Sustainable Nutrition’ at COP28, Documents Reveal

    Meat Companies and Lobbying Groups Plan to Present Meat as ‘Sustainable Nutrition’ at COP28, Documents Reveal

    Big meat companies and lobbyists for the industry have plans to be out in full force at the COP28 climate conference, bringing with them a message of meat as “sustainable nutrition,” documents from the Global Meat Alliance (GMA) reveal, according to a press release from DeSmog. The GMA documents disclose that JBS, the biggest meat […]

    Vertical Farming 101: Everything You Need to Know

    Vertical Farming 101: Everything You Need to Know

    Quick Key Facts What Is Vertical Farming?  What if you could walk into your grocery store in February to buy fresh tomatoes, strawberries, herbs, and leafy greens — all fresh and locally grown in the middle of winter? With vertical farming on the rise, that might just become a reality.  Vertical farming is pretty much […]

    USDA Updates Plant Hardiness Map With Many Areas Moving Into Warmer Zones

    USDA Updates Plant Hardiness Map With Many Areas Moving Into Warmer Zones

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture has updated its Plant Hardiness Zone map, a map of the U.S. that helps gardeners decide what plants will grow best in their local areas, based on average annual extreme minimum winter temperature. The updates show an average of 2.5°F warmer across the contiguous U.S. compared to the previous map, […]

    5 Vibrant Plants That Thrive in Shade and Cloudy Climates

    5 Vibrant Plants That Thrive in Shade and Cloudy Climates

    Wondering what to plant as the days get shorter and long shadows creep across your garden? There are plenty of shade-loving plants to keep your yard vibrant during months of low light or abundant cloud cover. Coral Bells (Heuchera) Heuchera in the Hudson Valley / Jenny Lee Fowler Coral bells, also known as alumroot, are […]

    Vermont Baking Company Develops Regeneratively Grown Whole Wheat Flour

    Vermont Baking Company Develops Regeneratively Grown Whole Wheat Flour

    King Arthur Baking Company, a Vermont-based flour and baking goods company, has produced a new whole wheat flour using regenerative agriculture. The product, called Regeneratively-Grown Climate Blend, is made up of a variety of wheat crops. According to the company, their Climate Blend offers a more sustainable flour that will perform nearly the same as […]