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A quest for the world’s finest pinot noir

Brian Doyle’s new book, The Grail, lives up to its lively subtitle as it describes “a year ambling and shambling through an Oregon vineyard in pursuit of the best pinot noir in the whole wild world.”

by Heidi Andrew, Feb 19, 2007
'There was just some hard hittin' going on'

Matt Jenkins visits the annual Combine Demolition Derby in the tiny farming town of Lind, Wash.

by Matt Jenkins, Aug 07, 2006
Dust in the wind

In his new book, The Worst Hard Time, Tim Egan interviews survivors to tell the story of the great American Dust Bowl on the southern Great Plains in the 1930s

by Gail Binkly, Jul 24, 2006
The merry — and meditative — farmer

In Blithe Tomato, Mike Madison writes engagingly about working the land on a small farm in California’s Central Valley

by Laura Paskus, Jul 24, 2006
Rhubarb is the season's gift to us

The writer sings the praises of rhubarb

by Linda M. Hasselstrom, Jun 05, 2006
Finding hope in a new land

Farmworker’s Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America is the story of Rose Castillo Guilbault’s childhood journey from Mexico’s Sonoran Desert to a new life in California’s Salinas Valley

by Stephen J. Lyons, May 15, 2006
Hope

After 16 years of living in the shadows in Pasco, Wash., Wendy and Erendira Santana finally win legal residency

by Melissa Hoyos, May 15, 2006
Guest farmworkers get a new deal

The United Farm Workers has signed a contract with agricultural labor-supply company Global Horizons protecting the rights of guest farmworkers

by Brett Wilkison, May 01, 2006
With liberty, justice, and locally produced food for all

In Fields That Dream: A Journey to the Roots of Our Food, Jenny Kurzweil illustrates how agricultural injustices can be combated by purchasing food from socially conscious local producers

by Annie Dawid, Mar 20, 2006
Southwestern farmers, lawmakers seek solutions to worker shortages

The Western Growers Association says its farmers need another 20,000 workers to harvest this winter’s crop, and President Bush endorses the idea of a guest-worker program to make it easier for migrant workers in the U.S.

by Tim Westby, Feb 20, 2006

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Results for keyword: Crops

A quest for the world’s finest pinot noir

'There was just some hard hittin' going on'

Dust in the wind

The merry — and meditative — farmer

Rhubarb is the season's gift to us

Finding hope in a new land

Hope

Guest farmworkers get a new deal

With liberty, justice, and locally produced food for all

Southwestern farmers, lawmakers seek solutions to worker shortages

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