An appeal which sought £1.4m to buy an organic farm has reached £260,000, enabling the fundraisers to buy a section of the ...

When one thinks of a retirement community, it's unlikely that food springs to mind, but in the case of this Pennsylvanian ...

Domestic Organic Investment Act aims to strengthen U.S. organic sector infrastructure and reduce import dependence on organic ...

A new international study into the impact of agricultural land use on climate change has found organic food production is worse for the climate than conventional farming, due to the fact that it needs ...

Champions of organic farming have long portrayed it as friendlier to humans and the earth. But a new study in a California county found a surprising effect as their acreage grew: Nearby conventional ...

Although organic farming has gained an immense amount of momentum over the last two decades, the term was actually coined back in the 1940s. English agriculturalist Walter James first used it as a way ...

Organic food, however, doesnt come without its downsides. The most obvious disadvantage is cost. Organic foods tend to be considerably more expensive than their conventionally grown counterparts, ...

Starting an organic farm requires space, seeds, livestock and money. Fortunately, some financial help is available for people hoping to establish an organic farming operation. Organic farms grow ...

Farming may seem old-fashioned to many, but that hasn't been true for years. Tractors steer themselves, software crunches crop data and agriculture now ranks among the most technologically advanced ...

Driving up a dirt road to the small produce stand at Bear Butte Gardens just outside Sturgis, one would never imagine the ...

Navin Ramankutty receives funding from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Canada Research Chairs program, U.S.