Backyard Farming
At chicken swap in Pennsylvania, fans trade eggs, buy exotic chicks, but most agree that hobby can leave dent in wallet
By Deirdre Van Dyk
Time magazine 2010-07-12
Recession drives urban agriculture; Will Allen, who farms at a former plant nursery in downtown Milwaukee, leads effort, building community with vegetables
Center for American Progress 2010-07-21
Opinion: Nation's 8 million acres of public rangeland should be regulated according to intensive grazing principles to turn grasslands verdant and to increase soil health
By Sara Rubin
The Atlantic 2010-06-22
Fishing
In Pennsylvania, epicenter of battle over fracking for natural gas, EPA hears stories of yellowed and foul-smelling well water, deformed livestock, poisoned fish, itchy skin
By Tom Zeller Jr.
The New York Times 2010-07-23
Laid-off land surveyor catches world-record catfish - 130 pounds - in Missouri River
By John Auble
Fox2Now.com 2010-07-20
Canisters pulled up by clam fishermen off New York coast cause blistering, difficulty breathing; canisters dumped back into ocean
By Rodrique Ngowi
The Associated Press; San Francisco Chronicle 2010-06-07
"After one huge spill during the mid-1980s, company workers paddled across pools of chlorinated benzene in aluminum boats, while a tractor-trailer sat stranded nearby, its tires melting as the solvent reacted with the rubber."
Foraging
Lured by peanut-butter sandwich inside, black bear clambers into unlocked Toyota, takes a ride
By Phil Gast
CNN 2010-07-24
Pennsylvania's Lancaster Farmacy draws on folk remedies that combine herbs with food, drawing on natural affinities, flavors to make medicine more palatable
By Elisa Ludwig
The Philadelphia Inquirer 2010-07-08
With cod, sea urchins overfished, fight brews in Maine over seaweed harvesting
By Robert Tomsho
The Wall Street Journal. (may require subscription) 2010-01-04
Gardening
Troop of volunteers conducting first census of urban green thumbs in bid to quantify New York City's annual garden harvest
By Melanie Grayce West
The Wall Street Journal. (may require subscription) 2010-06-10
Sample plots, bits of wisdom for true gardeners, who appreciates vagaries of life and knows that things will go wrong - that gardens die and are reborn
By Dominique Browning
Wired magazine 2010-05-24
Strapped corporations see goldmine of goodwill in edible gardens for employees
By Kim Severson
The New York Times 2010-05-19
Hunting
Essay: After five days' hunting, boom of .270 Winchester downs a doe, brings extreme joy, grief and gratitude for gift of meat
By Betty Fussell
The New York Times 2010-03-28
Alaska begins aerial hunt to kill 185 wolves - 80 percent of population - on Yukon border so 46,500 caribou are available for hunters to shoot
By Leslie Kaufman
The New York Times 2010-03-17
Iowa town besieged with fans of pheasant-focused festival that also includes bird-dog parade, tractors, jerky, boots, knives, ammo
By Jared Strong
The Des Moines Register 2010-02-26