In preparation for the summer season, our writers, editors, and members have been busy reading. And we have a number of food and farming titles we’re excited to recommend, including memoirs, cookbooks ...

As a first-generation sugar cane farmer and a fourth-generation cattle producer, Amanda Duhon has intimate knowledge of how the nation's meat, grains and produce make their way to grocery shelves and ...

Last spring, all you saw was rows and rows of dirt, with a promise of more to come. Then there were soft rows of green, followed by real plants, then crops of bales or food or cobs. That acreage you ...

As a boy on the poverty-stricken farm land of Chatham County, N.C., Clarence H. Poe got a proposition from his uncle. “If you’ll pick the leftover cotton in that patch,” he was told, “I’ll give you a ...

BOTETOURT CO, Va. – The Beaver Dam Sunflower Festival kicks off this weekend, and it’s the tenth year for the event. There’s a new book to mark the anniversary. From Seeds to Sunshine: Our Farm’s ...

Since sitting in the hushed sanctuary of our elementary school library I have always loved books. As a true bibliophile would, I began amassing quite a collection of books about trees when I started ...