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The precarious state of green tea in Japan

Japan in Focus

As it gets harder to make a living growing tea, some Japanese farmers are leaving the industry, while others are exploring new options.

Latvian farmers launch sunflower campaign to support Ukraine’s youth

Conflict & Justice

The enduring harvest of the ‘Tears of Chios’

Lifestyle
A man holds soybeans in his hands.

How soybeans became China’s most powerful weapon in Trump’s trade war

Business, Economics and Jobs

Teatro Campesino

Arts, Culture & Media

Tractors

Arts, Culture & Media

A beautifully designed tractor is the kind of farm equipment that’s guaranteed to induce childlike awe in even the slickest city dweller. Lu Olkowski visited a few farmers in upstate New York and asked them why these machines inspire so much devotion.

Special Guest: Verlyn Klinkenborg

Arts, Culture & Media

Verlyn Klinkenborg is a writer and farmer. He grew up in Iowa on his family’s homestead and he lives today on a farm in upstate New York. He’s the author of The Rural Life and Making Hay. He’s a member of the New York Times editorial board his essays on rural life are featured regularly […]

Matt Moore

Arts, Culture & Media

The unrelenting sprawl of tract houses and big box stores has made its way to Wadell, Arizona, outside of Phoenix, pushing out small farms. Matt Moore’s family has farmed there for decades, and before his farm becomes a subdivision, he decided to make art about it, by plowing the floor plans of tract houses into […]

Grow Your Own Van Gogh (Just Add Water)

Arts, Culture & Media

Artist Stan Herd’s giant floral recreation of a van Gogh painting can be seen from a plane. It’s a stunt, sure, but it might also be a sincere expression of what van Gogh wanted.

No-till farming.

Another way to grow crops — by laying down the plow

Food

No-till farming is being championed by farmers and environmentalists alike. Here’s why.