China was once one of the biggest buyers of US soybeans. Now that the trade war between the US and China has intensified, tariffs have been put on US soybeans. Now, farmers across the country are hurting.
Artist Stan Herd’s giant floral recreation of a van Gogh painting can be seen from a plane. It’s a stunt, sure, but it might also be a sincere expression of what van Gogh wanted.
Another way to grow crops — by laying down the plow
Looking back to the US incarceration of Japanese Americans and how, as one historian puts it, people can “lose sight of our important national values of justice and rule of law.”
Some advice for starting your own backyard ‘carbon farm’
“I think more people should have two different countries,” says this businessman-turned-farmer. He now has a farm in California where he grows Ethiopian peppers. And he’s starting a farm in Ethiopia growing things like Tuscan kale and Swiss chard.