Ad for ice cream at a Teshikaga (Hokkaido) ramen house features a photo of the farm family (4 children!) who produce the milk-- and, of cour...

I wrote late last week about Trump's moratorium on immigration enforcement in the agriculture and hospitality sectors, and he has alread...

Truck delivering rice plants in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, May 2025 I traveled to Japan for the first time in late May, which happen...

Island of Hvar, Croatia all photos (c) Lisa R. Pruitt 2024 I've been traveling in Slovenia and Croatia the last week or so and, not surp...

I first took notice of so-called vertical farms about the time I started this blog some decade and a half ago when I saw this story in the N...

Stephan Bisaha reports for NPR from Kewanee, Mississippi , on the Alabama state line in Lauderdale County, population 80,000 .  Here's ...

Elizabeth G. Dunn reports for the New York Times today ; the headline is " How 'Fairy Tale' Farms are Ruining Hudson Valley Agr...

As regular readers will realize, I've been traveling through the American Southwest the past few weeks, ending with a few days in Sedona...

Homepage for Rural Mendocino Wines I've been traveling this weekend in nonmetropolitan  Mendocino County, California , including both in...

 Ellen Barry reported for the New York Times a few days ago out of Peacham, Vermont, population 732 .  The headline is, " In a Wistful...

A great deal of news coverage about food and how it reaches consumers is on offer during this coronavirus pandemic.  The  first story I wa...