There are plenty of agriculture buzzwords floating around the news these days (Agroforestry! Vertical farming! Sustainable intensification!), and it can be challenging to keep all these different ...

Over the last several years there has been increasing interest in produce and food products that have been grown by organic and environmentally friendly methods. The wine world is not immune to this ...

Biodynamic compost made from cattle dung but adds the horns of dead livestock to enrich nutrients in the fertiliser. Photos: SUDARSHAN CHAUDHARY Across Nepal, the organic matter content of the soil is ...

“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 ...

DAYTON, Ore. — A large circular calendar greets visitors inside the wine shop at Domaine Willamette, nestled in the Dundee Hills of Oregon’s Willamette Valley. The 20-acre estate, opened in 2022 by ...

The latest in a long line of women to run her family winery, she helped bring worldwide attention to sustainable viniculture. By Clay Risen Evelyne de Pontbriand, a former French teacher who had no ...

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 ...

After a public debate that has engaged the Italian scientific community for months, Italy’s new law on organic farming was finally approved by the Parliament on 2 March. The draft version, that the ...

According to Encyclopedia Britanica [1], intensive agriculture is, in agricultural economics, a system of cultivation that uses a large amount of labor and capital in relation to the surface area of ...