Frequency | Quarterly |
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Founded | 2013 |
Final issue | 2018 (print) |
Company | Modern Farmer Media |
Country | United States |
Based in | Hudson, New York |
Language | English |
Website |
modernfarmer |
ISSN | 2326-0807 |
Modern Farmer is a quarterly American magazine devoted to agriculture and food, founded in April 2013. [1] [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. [2] 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]
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, New York. [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. [1] [11] The paper's owner said in a statement that it planned to return for a summer issue in 2015. [12] Despite fiscal difficulties, the magazine temporarily returned in 2015, in part due to Frank Giustra's continued support for the project. In 2018, the magazine went online-only. [13]