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Tasty rare fruits that big ag left behind.

In the fall of 2008, Tom Pinchbeck announced he would be closing his family’s rose farm in Guilford, Connecticut, which had been operating for nearly 80 years. It had been a slow decline for the business due to competition from imported roses from Central and South America, and Equatorial Africa, where they don’t have to spend money on heating greenhouses and where labor is cheap.

Say hello to Blue Whistler Farm. They’re taking over our Instagram feed this weekend.

When even the most responsible farming turns out to have an unexpected impact on the environment.

An excerpt from the new book “Gilded Age Murder & Mayhem in the Berkshires.”

She changed her path from policy to planting.

For refugees cut off from their agrarian pasts, an urban farming program does more than bring food to the table.

The growth rate of sugar maples is declining, against all odds.

This former surf bum grew up romping through his uncle’s vineyard, and now has a wine label to call his own.