Twelve thousand years ago, a small group of humans in what is now southeastern Turkey made a series of decisions that would permanently alter the trajectory of life on Earth. They didn’t know it at ...

Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural settlements, marking one of the greatest transformations in human history. This ...

After 200,000 years of hunting and gathering, a history-defining decision was made. Starting roughly 12,000 years ago, at least seven different groups of humans independently began to settle down and ...

A trove of ancient plant remains excavated in Kenya helps explain the history of plant farming in equatorial eastern Africa, a region long thought to be important for early farming but where scant ...

Burt and Nicholas explore how agriculture shaped the nation’s history and how it continues to evolve. Nicholas travels to Illinois to retrace John Deere’s beginnings in a small blacksmith shop, then ...

The Ivy Creek Foundation will host its Farm Day event on Oct. 19 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Ivy Creek Natural Area and Historic River View Farm. The event is designed to celebrate and experience ...

This story was published in The Palm Beach Post on Feb. 7, 2005. Editor's note: Palm Beach County leads every county east of the Mississippi in agricultural sales, according to the Palm Beach County ...

Author of the new book ‘Barn Gothic: Three Generations and the Death of the Family Farm’ discusses growing up on a dairy farm, the state of the industry, and what can be done. Ryan Dennis is the ...