Tobacco, and the economic system of mercantilism, factored into the grievances of the colonists leading to the...
Agriculture
Tobacco, along with the “three sisters” (beans, maize, and squash), was among the most significant crops cultivated...
Aligning reforms in financial, trade, environmental, and competition policy. As the Biden-Harris transition team rapidly fills key...
The fields cover the remains of hundreds of stone age farms. By Jenny SnookHistorian Overview The Ceide...
Black people remain underrepresented in agriculture. Black Americans own just 1% of rural land nationwide. At the...
Some landlords do care enough that they’ll spend money to protect the environment, but not enough. Lisa...
For 45 years, David Hanks has photographed feed mills in every season and mood. By David HanksPhotographer...
Gardens were an important feature of ancient life and most houses had gardens filled with practical plantings....
To meet that temperature target, global greenhouse gas emissions will need to fall by 40% to 50%...
Three scholars argue that agriculture is failing to sustain either the land or American farmers. They propose...
The great majority of the people ruled by Rome were engaged in agriculture. Introduction Roman Agriculture describes the...
Agriculture was the foundation of the Ancient Greek economy. Nearly 80% of the population was involved in this activity.[1] Agricultural...
Pastoralism is a central part of many Africans’ identity. But how and when did this way of...
For a small price, Ferdinand Brader would draw a bird’s-eye view of someone’s homestead. When Ferdinand A....
The ancient Near East, and the Fertile Crescent in particular, is generally seen as the birthplace of...
Urban farming can make it easier for city residents to obtain healthy, affordable food. During the partial...
Ancient DNA analyses show that – unlike elsewhere in Europe – farmers from the Near East did...
The crisis affected all kind of people: whites, mestizos, and indigenous people; herders, large cattle owners, and...
A neolithic farm in Scotland that may be the oldest in northern Europe. / Photo by Drewcorser, Wikimedia...
Harvester Vase from Hagia Triada, c. 1550-1500 B.C.E., black steatite, diameter 4.5 inches (Archaeological Museum of Heraklion)...
This copy of a medieval manuscript illustration shows a peasant using a very modest version of the...
Early agrarian women—like these murdered in what is now western France some 6500 years ago—may have been...
Modesto Hernandez Leal, a worker-owner at Cooperativa Tierra y Libertad, gives a tour of the blueberry field....
Certain technological developments singlehandedly pushed the growth of population across the whole of the continent. By Dimitris Romeo Havlidis...
A view of the millstones and oven of a bakery (Pistrinium) in the Roman town of Pompeii which was buried in...
Olive trees on the Greek island of Anaxos. Cereals / Wikimedia Commons The prosperity of the majority...
Give a man a ploughshare, and he’ll turn it into a sword. Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH An elite class...
The owner of this skull had a nasty run in with an axe. Christian Meyer These massacres entail killing...
The decoration of choice by Europe’s farming-friendly forefathers. Solange Rigaud, Author provided Studying beads, shells and animal teeth –...
Photograph originally published in Horace Edward Stockbridge’s Land Teaching (Southern Ruralist Company, 1910). / Wikimedia Commons By...