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The frozen tundra of the Arctic is experiencing something of an agriculture boom.

Longtime local aquafarmer and restaurateur, Luc Chamberland has launched what may be California’s first oyster CSA, Community Supported Aquaculture. Same concept as the age-old cardboard veggie box, except instead of parsnips and eggplant, you get an ice-packed cooler full of briny, sweet Pacifics – and the opportunity, as Chamberland puts it, “to get mud between your toes.”

On the making of “Children of the Corn” and why rural horror works.

Demand for hemp isn’t as high as hemp’s loudest proponents would have it — all you have to do is look at countries where it’s legal.

In which we highlight what is seasonal, talk to those who grow it, and share a recipe (or two). This week: green tomatoes.

The top 100 landowners of America, who collectively own about the same amount of acreage as the state of Connecticut.

Lucky was big, but she had nothing on Last Chance, the 1,138-pound Leviathan that Layton grew in 2007 and which still stands as the state record for the largest pumpkin, well past ...

Lillian Colton first entered a crop art competition 1966. Eleven years, she had earned the title of “the Andy Warhol of seeds.”

The continuing journals of dairy farmer W.G. Pope from 1941, as illustrated by his great-grandson. This week: a car crashes into a barn.