I had driven for an hour through a landscape blasted by extreme heat and drought before I saw a single combine at harvest. It kicked up a thick dust cloud that coated my windshield, and from then ...

Under USMCA rules, Mexico has 45 days to comply with the ruling. The 2023 presidential decree imposed an immediate ban on imports of GMO white corn used in making dough and tortillas, an everyday food ...

Robert Kunzig is a freelance writer in Birmingham, Alabama. He is a former senior editor at National Geographic, Discover, and Scientific American, and the author of Mapping The Deep, Fixing ...

Weird meat is a departure from what the cell-meat industry originally promised. It’ll be expensive, to start with. (As of November, Vow was selling its quail parfait to four restaurants in ...

In FERN’s latest story, published with Fast Company, reporter Joe Fassler explains how Vow, an Australian startup, is reinventing lab-grown meat by ignoring chicken and beef and focusing on what CEO ...

The Honeycrisp apple redefined what an apple could be. It was different from any other apple most American shoppers had encountered before, especially for consumers who frequented ...

The quail parfait glistens on my plate, smeared across a disc of fried heirloom masa. At first glance, it looks like the kind of fine-dining fare you’ll find at many high-end restaurants: a rich, rosy ...

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In FERN’s latest story, published with Switchyard Magazine, reporter Robert Kunzig takes us to the upper Mississippi River Delta, where the idea of growing more fruits and vegetables — to ease the ...