Agriculture and Farming

September 17, 2020

Fall’s Almost Here. Can We Still Go Apple Picking?

Across much of the country, fall is the season of apple-picking, corn mazes, winery harvests and Halloween hauntings, luring day-trippers and weekenders to rural areas. But […]
May 18, 2020

The Joy of Imaginary Homesteading in Los Angeles

ImageCredit…Illustration by Larry Buchanan/The New York Times The Joy of Imaginary Homesteading in Los Angeles By Sure, my prairie is a driveway, but the mind must […]
May 9, 2020

The Grapelord of Napa Faces a Threat Worse Than Plague

One balmy winter afternoon, Andy Beckstoffer, a grape grower who has done more than nearly anyone to shape the premium U.S. wine industry, was sitting in […]
March 10, 2020

Escape Into Cottagecore, Calming Ethos for Our Febrile Moment

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November 22, 2017

The Culture Is Changing, With Feminist Cheese

Last year Erin Bligh, the proprietor of Dancing Goats Dairy in Newbury, Mass., planned to introduce a new cheese — hard, with spicy peppers — called […]
September 26, 2017

Pot Farmer to Neighbors: Chill Out. Neighbors: No.

McMinnville, Ore. — “This is hostile territory. Everyone hates us.” I was riding up a steep hill near Highway 18 one August afternoon when Richard Wagner […]
June 16, 2017

Vows: Don’t Fall in Love With Me, She Said. He Wouldn’t Listen.

Vows By LOUISE RAFKIN When Devin Peralta and Lindsay Howard met more than a dozen years ago, neither could have predicted a future that involved waking […]