For a small price, Ferdinand Brader would draw a bird’s-eye view of someone’s homestead. When Ferdinand A....
Agriculture
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...
Coffee’s usefulness doesn’t have to end here. Yanadhorn/Shutterstock.com Plenty of cafes these days will let you take home...
Beans have travelled a long way to make your cup of coffee. Jack Fussell/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND By Don Brushett /...
The Growroom exhibited at Copenhagen Opera House. Photo by Alona Vibe From Space10 / 02.14.2017 Introduction The design...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 02.24.2018 Historian Brewminate Editor-in-Chief The Agriculture Market Landscape Introduction The agricultural...
Farmers’ Institute at Badger, Minnesota, in Roseau County, June 9, 1904 / Minnesota Historical Society By Dr....
Each container uses only 10 gallons of water per day, 90 percent less than what is used...
Years of plowing and planting left soil depleted and weak. As a result, clouds of dust fell...
Ancient Egyptian plowing farmer scene from the burial chamber of Sennedjem / The Yorck Project via Wikimedia Commons By...
Barley continues to be the staple diet of people living in this Dolpo Valley of Nepal, a...
Tiny samples taken from ancient European skulls, in a process shown here, yielded enough DNA for researchers...
For over a century, acequias have resisted the flow of water toward corporations in New Mexico and...
Former farm staff, Zotero Citlacoatl, and Las Milpitas volunteers in the greenhouse, learning about heritage fruit tree...
By Cory Doctorow / 01.05.2017 There’s really nothing not to love about vertical farms — multi-story hydroponic...