Conscious Consumption

After stints in Cape Town and San Francisco, Jakoba and Cornelis Dumas – a “part-time accountant, part-time mother,” 34, and an industrial designer specializing in furniture, 35, respectively – decided it was time to settle down. Their dream? To build a house at Jacobsdal, the wine farm on the edge of Stellenbosch, South Africa, where Cornelis grew up.

Luckily, Joy Barlogio of Jack Creek Farms knows a thing or two about picking the best fruit among the dry vines. Her family has 115 years of pumpkin growing experience and she buil...

Thanks to J. Paul Getty Museum’s new platform for open source material, OpenContent, we’ve been able to dig these gems up from the past.

On the fertile mediterranean island of Salina, capers are preserved the old-fashioned way, a painstaking process that involves packing them in salt.

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.