Modern Farmer (magazine)
| Cover of issue 01
Cover of issue 01
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| Frequency | Quarterly |
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| Year founded | 2013 |
| Final issue | January 23, 2015 |
| Company | Modern Farmer Media |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Hudson, New York |
| Language | English |
| Website | modernfarmer |
| ISSN | 2326-0807 |
Founded in April 2013,[1] Modern Farmer is a quarterly American magazine devoted to agriculture and food.[2] The magazine is unique in that it attempts to have equally rural and urban readers,[3] and to "appeal to the person who wants to romanticize farming and the person who is knee deep in turkey droppings", according to The New York Times.[1] In 2014, the publication won the National Magazine Awards for the Magazine Section.[4]
Modern Farmer covers feature livestock and its articles include those like a series of interviews with agriculture ministers from around the globe.[5] Its stories tend to take a "farm to table" perspective, comprehensively covering food and agriculture topics like Greek yogurt or feral pigs.[6] In addition to the print magazine, it has a popular website; its "goatcam", a public web cam of goats, produced 60,000 pageviews alone.[7]
History
Based in Hudson, New York,[3] the magazine was backed financially by Fiore Capital and its founding CEO/editor-in-chief was Ann Marie Gardner; she was later replaced by Sarah Gray Miller.[7][8][9][10] Gardner, a long-time magazine editor, came up with the idea for Modern Farmer when she tried developing a television show about a magazine editor covering a story about conflict between old and new farmers in Germantown.[8] After developing a set of stories for the fictional character, she decided to create a real magazine.
In early 2015, the magazine's founder and much of its editorial staff departed the publication, with print publication suspended.[2][11] The paper's owner said in a statement that it planned to return for a summer issue in 2015.[12] Despite fiscal difficulties, magazine did return in 2015, and as of February 2016, continues to publish, in part due to Frank Giustra's continued support for the project.
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