An interview with Mark Arax about the two decades he spent writing about the San Joaquin Valley empire of Lynda and Stuart Resnick.
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Fighting the Vanilla Thieves of Madagascar
Demand for vanilla from Madagascar has skyrocketed in recent years, but the process of exporting the spice to markets around the world is fraught with risk, unpredictability, and — increasingly — violence.
Posted inBooks, History, Science & Nature, Story
Taming the Great American Desert
By advocating for agriculture in the arid West, Major John Wesley Powell challenged the way America viewed its right to develop the continent.
Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
Viewing a Desert Highway Through Someone Else’s Eyes
One Arizonan narrates the two hour drive between Phoenix and Tucson.
Posted inFood, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature
Farming a Warming Planet
Even if rising sea levels flood many coastal cities, California farmers plan to grow food for a living. So what will the future California grow?
Posted inFood, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Farming A Warming Planet: An Interview Nathanael Johnson
How California farmers are planning ahead for climate change while balancing their immediate economic concerns.
Posted inBusiness, Culture, Food, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
How the U.S. Systematically Puts Black Farmers Out of Business
How America stacks the deck against black farmers.
Posted inStory
The Proving Grounds: Charley Crockett and the Story of Deep Ellum
Generations of musicians got their start busking the streets of the Deep Ellum neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. After a decade of ‘hobo-ing’ around cities like New Orleans, Paris, and New York, Charley Crockett discovered it was his turn.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Food, Quotes
It Turns Out No One’s in Kansas Anymore
Kansas is great at growing wheat, but growing wheat hasn’t been great for Kansas.
Posted inNonfiction
In Pocahontas County, Deep Divisions and a Gruesome Discovery
In an excerpt from ‘The Third Rainbow Girl,’ Emma Copley Eisenberg interrogates various social conditions that might have contributed to a mysterious double murder in West Virginia in 1980.
