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Your Herbs and Spices Might Contain Arsenic, Cadmium, and Lead
Consumer Reports found that herbs and spices might contain arsenic, cadmium, and lead, based on tests of products from McCormick, Whole Foods, and dozens of other big brands.
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The farmer who found a way to get rid of agricultural pests without using pesticides.
The farmer who found a way to get rid of agricultural pests without using pesticides.
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For over 300 years Europeans could not grow vanilla seeds since bringing it from South America. In 1836 it was finally discovered that a bee from Mexico was the only capable pollinator of the vanilla ... View More
The Bittersweet Story of Vanilla
Today, less than 1 percent of vanilla flavoring comes from the vanilla flower. Is that a good thing?
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Future Space Travel Might Require Mushrooms
Mycologist Paul Stamets discusses the potential extraterrestrial uses of fungi, including terraforming planets, building human habitats—and providing psilocybin therapy to astronauts
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Marmalade: A Very British Obsession
Captain Scott took jars to the Antarctic with him, and Edmund Hillary took one up Everest. Marmalade is part of the British national myth. Livvy Potts wants to know why.
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This Colorado ‘solar garden’ is literally a farm under solar panels
The newly passed infrastructure bill could lead to a boom in solar production requiring a lot more land, including farmland. But research is showing solar panels might actually help grow some crops.
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Wild Bidding Wars Erupt at Used-Tractor Auctions Across the U.S.
Records are falling left and right as inflation arrives in farm country.
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Self-Driving Farm Robot Uses Lasers To Kill 100,000 Weeds An Hour, Saving Land And Farmers From Toxic Herbicides
Self-Driving Farm Robot Uses Lasers To Kill 100,000 Weeds An Hour, Saving Land And Farmers From Toxic Herbicides
The nutrient content of our vegetables is down 40% over the last two decades and our soil health is suffering due to increasingly harsh herbicide use, according to Carbon Robotics founder Paul Mikesel...
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Uses Lasers To Kill
if he'll use it to kill humans?
if he'll use it to kill humans?
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Monsanto will send their lobbyists to Washington to ban this method.
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Pine nuts can sell for $117 per kilogram — here’s why they are one of the most expensive nuts in the world
In the remote forests of Northeastern China, local harvesters climb trees as high as 100 feet to reach this region’s most valuable product: pine nuts.
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Can we stomach the latest emerging food innovations?
Our growing appetite for novel food tech - from lab grown meat to nano-packaging.