“I always had a dream, just go try it,” Pedersen said while baling hay at Scot Nelson’s Lakota, North Dakota, farm. Pedersen gave working in North Dakota a try in 2004, at first on a J1 training visa, ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The United Nations has called 2014 - the International year of Family Farming. The second instalment in ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

If you buy lettuce in the winter in Denmark, it will probably be imported from Spain or Italy—or even Kenya. But a new vertical indoor farm on the outskirts of Copenhagen will soon begin producing ...