Articles by Sr. Staff Writer Nathanael Johnson
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Cultivating an app for how your garden grows
Growstuff lets you track your plantings -- and puts your data to work for a wider community.
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The future is a desert, but we can make it bloom
If we want to keep growing food in a changing climate, there's a lot we can learn from desert farmers.
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Genetic engineering: Do the differences make a difference?
Where you come down on nature -- cradle or battlefield? -- shapes how you think about the risks of genetically modified food.
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Angry birders: Farm bill in flux imperils feathered friends
The farm bill's Conservation Reserve Program pays farmers to provide safe haven for birds. But as long as the fate of the law is up in the air, the birds won't be.