When I would go to the farmers' market or the grocery store, I browsed the vegetables on offer to find the one that I deemed worthy t...

There's just no end to the drama at Lost Valley Farm in Boardman, Oregon's second-largest factory farm dairy. Today the farm...

A panda walks into a bar. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air. "Why? Why are you behaving...

What better way to celebrate Earth Day than with a tale of the simple joy brought to people by bees? The following essay  by Mace Vaughan...

An update on the great horned owl family at Ayers Creek Farm from contributor Anthony Boutard reveals the function of their striking faci...

I don't know about you, but in spring my social media feeds are full of babies…tiny goats scampering after their mothers, calves with...

We had a writer friend from San Francisco visiting for the weekend, and while we'd made plans to go out for dinner Saturday night—no...

I noticed it a few weeks ago. Little yellow buds had appeard on the forsythia outside my kitchen window, one of the first signs that spri...

When I would go to the farmers' market or the grocery store, I browsed the vegetables on offer to find the one that I deemed worthy t...

A recent report in the East Oregonian newspaper indicated that Rabobank, a Dutch agricultural lender, reported that Greg te Velde, owner...

Contributor Anthony Boutard has written often over the years about the owls that inhabit the land that he and Carol tend in the Wapato Va...

Meet  Jon Bansen,  a pasture-based dairyman in Oregon's Willamette Valley, in this profile I wrote for Civil Eats' Farmer of the ...

It's Easter weekend and I can't think of anything more appropriate than my friend Nancy Harmon Jenkins's  super-easy maple bre...

When I would go to the farmers' market or the grocery store, I browsed the vegetables on offer to find the one that I deemed worthy t...

It is a rare weekend morning when my husband isn't warming up the oven and pulling out flour from the pantry to bake something for br...

This post summarizes media coverage involving incidents at  Lost Valley Farm , one of two mega-dairies in the Boardman area that supply m...