Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two of those approaches, organic farming and biodynamic farming, often get lumped together – but they’re far from identical. If ...

FEET FIRST: Jeff Poppen, the "Barefoot Farmer," returns to Asheville July 9-10 to lead an intensive workshop on biodynamic principles at Living Web Farms in Mills River. Photo courtesy of Living Web ...

HOG HEAVEN: At her Wild Mountain Farm in Barnardsville, Megan Naylor labors to create a closed system that nurtures livestock, plants, the soil and humans. Photo by Megan Naylor “I spent most of my ...

Does planting a cow horn full of fresh manure in a vineyard make a better wine than a winery using more conventional farming techniques? Kevin Morrisey won’t quite make that claim, but he does think ...

FOREST GROVE, Ore. — The journey to biodynamic farming at Montinore Estate began with a tiny soil-dwelling insect. Rudy Marchesi, former president of the 200-acre vineyard and winery west of Portland, ...

“The miracle is nature’s waiting for us to do the right thing.” – Brook LeVan, Sustainable Settings The canary yellow flag that flickers in the wind above the rustic farm buildings and golden fields ...

An octogenarian biodynamic farmer battles bureaucracy in his quest to preserve Danish Red dairy cattle, and to practice crop and animal husbandry in a respectful manner, in the inspiring, good-looking ...

It's definitely going that direction at one estate vineyard in Washington state wine country. At Hedges Family Estate in the renowned Red Mountain AVA, the move to biodynamic grape growing practices ...

This article by Sanjib Chaudhary was originally published in Nepali Times and an edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. Across Nepal, the soil has ...

To understand biodynamic agriculture, consider egg labeling. “Free-range” stamps previously suggested eggs laid by chickens raised on pastures. Then, it turned out, they were laid by chickens with ...