Gotta love that garlic breadth
New! October 13, 2005: A pungent plethora of festivals celebrate the diversity--and marketability--of this culinary, medicinal and ever-popular allium. Staff writer Dan Sullivan offers growing tips, varietal advice and insights into what makes for a successful garlic fest. MORE >

• Organic community split over synthetics—and who holds the power
• Ag cuts imminent
• Conservation programs cut even as subsidy programs offered to world trade
• Cotton yields hold priority over worker health in Turkmenistan
• The potato finds its home in Peru

Pro-choice AND pro-life
New! October 13, 2005: There’s strong evidence, says ecologist and writer Sandra Steingraber, that agricultural chemicals cause miscarriages and deformities, contaminate breast milk, disrupt vulnerable stages in life like adolescence, and are the source of problems in old age—such as Parkinson’s disease. With the rigor of a scientist and lyricism of a poet, she addresses these issues. MORE >

Welcome to our expanded
Farming for Credit Directory!

New! October 13, 2005: Browse through information on course offerings and hands-on experiences available at more than 70 colleges and universities around the country. T MORE >