"Humans need straight lines, nature doesn't. Indecisive river and orderly farmers, central Asia."

Tweeting photos from space.

"Their ideas point to the way that agriculture has to be in the future."

"There’s wide consensus that we have to figure out this fusion of ‘organic’ and 'industrial.' They’ve illustrated what that fus...

"It sends the wrong message to distraught farmers when the Agriculture Secretary suggests that the best response is to pray."

"For a Cabinet official to recommend prayer as a solution or call attention to his own devotions may violate the Constitution’s prohibi...

A farm in Perrysville, Indiana.

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"The Myth of Sustainable Meat."

A NYT op-ed , prepping you for the slaughter... of your carnivoraciousness. Opponents of industrialized agriculture have been declaring for ...

Dibbing Sun Gold Tomato Seeds.

Here 's the Rolling Stones song I bring up as Meade dibs.

Obama administration calls Christmas trees "Christmas trees"... and taxes them.

It sound amusingly Grinch-y , but let's be fair. The 15-cent charge is to support a program to "enhance the image of Christmas tree...

"Occupy Wall Street, Occupy State Street, Occupy Everything and Never Give It Back!"

That's the chant at one point in this video — shot by Meade and me, edited by me — of the Occupy Madison protest at the Capitol Square t...

"Milwaukee recognized for urban farms, aquaponics."

"International team recognizes Milwaukee's 'high potential' to improve access to healthy food, revitalize neighbor hoods an...

Don't send 4-year-olds to school. Send them to work.

Says Cornell Anthropologist Meredith F. Small: Look outside Western culture and watch children, even very small children, as they gather fir...

On the Sugar River Trail.

We biked the Sugar River Trail today, from New Glarus Woods State Park to Albany and back — 33 miles.

Caught in a rainstorm, ducking into a small-town libraray, I read the Utne Reader yesterday.

I used to subscribe back in the 80s, when I loved it. But what is it now? I found the cover pretty amusing: I can't find a bigger pictu...

"Robot suits to aid elderly Japanese farmers with toiling in the fields."

"People aged 65 and older are a key pillar of the agricultural work force, accounting for about 60 percent of the agricultural populati...

Wisconsin farmland.

Seen from Blue Mounds.