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Grass Fed Myth Buster “Grass-fed cows make the best burgers, period.” This is Ridgeway Shinn’s mantra. Ridge is on a mission to change the beliefs of American beefeaters to prove that grass-fed cattle produce a more flavorful meat than their grain-finished relatives and in the process are a boon to the environment. In his arsenal is the herd of Devon cattle that he shipped from New Zealand on two 747’s in 2008 and the pure science that he uses to make his point. The Devon cattle are the gentle giants of the farm that Ridge runs and they are also the machine used to reinvigorate leased land that has been ruined by over-farming, herbicides, and other chemicals. The Devons eat grass whose roots have pulled carbon from the air; they then fertilize the land that they have been living on and within 2 to 3 years the land has been revived. This is the kind of perfect balance that sustainable farmers are always...

Oyster Saves the Bay The long history of the Chesapeake Bay oyster was too strong a pull to keep cousins Ryan and Travis Croxton out of the business their great-great grandfather had started in 1899, when oyster “farming” was basically hunting and gathering the bivalves that were a natural part of the Bay. Oysters were a supplement to farming and were “free,” as land leases were yet to be implemented. The cousin’s fathers tried to discourage them from oyster farming as they watched their fleets of boats destroyed by multiple hurricanes and the Bay become “polluted” from over farming and lack of planning from local

A Farmer Grows in Brooklyn Writing fiction, consulting businesses and growing 3000 tomato plants in an apartment in Brooklyn seemed like a good idea at first, but then the tomatoes got really good and the rejection letters from journals kept on coming.