We travel in a different way now. We want to experience the world from a local perspective. Modern Farmer’s Global Guide to Local is where the new food culture will be traveling in 2014! Join us!

Happily, exploring new local cultures involves shopping. How fun is it to find the stuff – handmade chocolate, textiles, delicious cheeses, local honey – that you just can’t get anywhere else? Here is Modern Farmer’s global guide to local goods.

The Hudson Valley is an intersection of a new global aesthetic – rural and urban, understated yet stylish.

Lush, verdant and local, these restaurants, cooking schools, resorts, coffee shops and farm stays will keep you connected to Chiang Mai’s vibrant culture.

These restaurants have food that is fresh, unique, to the region and grown by someone the chef knows. Also: It’s defined bt where and what the local food lovers eat.

Tech nerds, artists, designers and, increasingly, food lovers all have reasons to gather in Berlin.

From stays in Texas to Tanzania, these hotels make you feel like a local.

Read the most-read stories and some we wish got more attention.

Upstate New York farmers show off the finest farmwear money can buy.