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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.

To regulate cinnamon, the European Union might have to pry beloved kanelsnegels — or cinnamon swirls — from the dead, sticky hands of Danish bakers.

A rubber-booted farmer and a sharply-suited city worker may appear to inhabit two different worlds. In Japan, however, the gap is inching closed due to the rise of "virtual farmers...

If it were possible to give every square foot of the farm exactly what it needs, when it needs it, two things would happen: Farmers would get a bigger crop yield, and use less input ”“ water, fertilizer, fungicide, pesticide, etc. This means less cost to both farmers and to the environment.

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