Remember when fruits and vegetables were bursting with flavor?The demand on farmers to produce the fastest, highest-yielding crop comes with a price: it’s less nutritious and environmentally detrimental. Decades of using fertilizers and pesticides have stripped the soil of many microbes required to grow nutritious food, resulting in the decline of essential vitamins and minerals in our diet.Using data from the US Department of Agriculture...

Remember when fruits and vegetables were bursting with flavor?The increasing demand on farmers to produce the fastest, highest-yielding crop comes with a price: it's less nutritious and environmentally detrimental. Decades of using fertilizers and pesticides have stripped the soil of many required elements and microbes needed to grow nutritious food, resulting in the decline of many essential vitamins and minerals in our diet.Using data fro...