Each year, on our fruit-and-vegetable farm in New England, my family covers about a quarter of our 50 acres with plastic mulch. Rolls of it, five feet wide and 4,000 feet long, sit on a machine that ...

In a parking lot on South University Drive, Amanda Schlenker fills bags with dirt-tinged carrots. She weighs the bags on a scale atop a card table and then stacks them near the eggplants and cucumbers ...

Still using cling film or plastic wraps to keep your fruits and veggies fresh? It might be time to ditch that habit. What we once thought was a handy kitchen hack is actually doing more harm than good ...