Farming

Advocates say growing niche market food, herbs and botanicals lowers the entry cost to farming and can also make smaller farms more profitable.

Cat Neville, the founder of Feast Magazine, discusses the success of her PBS show "TasteMAKERS" and her new role at Hermann Farm + Museum

The game Farming Simulator is bringing people together who may not be farmers but identify as part of the agriculture community.

An increasing number of farmers believe in climate change and that it will negatively affect them. But as a group they don't think humans are to blame.

In this episode, we introduce you to two Black artists who teamed up to heal and educate their community through an urban farm in predominantly Black North St. Louis City. They share their vision for building an education garden with accessible raised beds, and growing flowers and healing herbs alongside chickens and bees. Then we learn about how they encountered a major obstacle that put their dreams on hold...

President-elect Joe Biden played it safe by choosing former Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to return to the post, but that isn't playing well with everyone.

Bonus payments from the federal government because of the coronavirus were the difference in total farm income going up instead of dropping.

A growing community of Black farmers in St. Louis is working to feed residents in areas with few traditional grocery stores, but for some, the costs of getting started are a major hurdle. A small group of growers and food justice advocates is trying to ease the burden on these aspiring farmers by offering a lending “tool bank” in north city.

Applications to a USDA program to help farmers add solar panels is seeing increased applications. Falling prices of solar equipment is making the renewable energy a more viable option on the farm.

Volunteers from St. Louis have harvested thousands of pounds of vegetables from Indiana farms this summer, distributing it to local food pantries and soup kitchens.