It turns out that if you keep a blog going long enough, you start to notice that you’re not so much writing new posts as ...

Apples have been another recurring obsession on the blog, maybe because they make the conservation problem unusually tangible ...

The Quest to Save the World’s Most Coveted Chocolate is an engaging story in Smithsonian Magazine about Ecuador’s ancient, ...

After the recent worrying announcement about the USDA closing the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, there may now be some good news. US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has just ...

I've been following the vineyards of Pompeii for quite a while, it turns out. Maybe because archaeology and wine are two of ...

Cassava has been a persistent thread through this blog since the beginning. It first appears as a staple with a dark side: ...