News

A new kind of trading card redefines the phrase “farm team.”

A huge win for massive corporations, a big loss for farmers.

When Lon Inaba’s grandfather, Shukichi Inaba, emigrated to Washington’s Yakima Valley from Japan in 1907, federal law forbade Japanese immigrants from owning land.

Hiker, surfer, and inveterate adventurer Alyssa Ravasio, 28, was fed up with the number of hours she spent online trawling for cool places to pitch her tent. So in 2014, she taught herself how to code, then built a resource for like-minded travelers.

But does this French study extend to the U.S.?

“I always tell people, when you plant a seed, you’re growing a story,” says Ken Greene, who began circulating seeds like books while working at the Gardiner, New York, public library more than a decade ago.

In the U.S. billions of pounds of produce is tossed out every year for aesthetic reasons. The Ugly Fruit and Veg Campaign is hoping to convince the grocery giant Alberstons to consider selling less than perfect produce.

You may not have heard of it, but rice farmers sure have.