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The goal is to repatriate Coral Sorghum to the local Shilluk people once the Sudanese Civil War ends and they regain their land.
gardens

Turn Your Garden Into an 'Ark of Taste' For Nearly Lost Plants

Slow Food’s annual "Plant a Seed Kit" encourages home-gardeners to cultivate rare and endangered crops.
Sarah Lohman April 23, 2024
A stone wall stretches into the distance in Harpswell, Maine, one of thousands that together, by volume, are larger than the Great Wall of China, Hadrian's Wall, and the Pyramids of Giza combined.
science

Why New England's Stone Walls Are Unlike Any Others

Bigger than the Great Wall of China, Hadrian's Wall, and the Pyramids of Giza combined, the region's ubiquitous stone walls are also a unique ecological habitat.
Robert M. Thorson April 15, 2024
Berkane, Morocco

Monument de l'Orange de Berkane (Berkane Orange Monument)

A massive clementine marks the center of town in the citrus city of Berkane.
The rosy-red Liberal Obscuro bean.
farms

The Woman Preserving a Beloved Bean Collection

The "Friends of Sam Birch" plant dozens of bean varieties each year.
Anne Ewbank March 15, 2024
Réservoir de Lavardens
Bordeaux, France

Réservoir de Lavardens

A very uncommon water tank standing in the middle of the grapevines in Bordeaux nearly a century after its construction.
astronomy

Imbolc, Groundhog Day, and Brigantia All Celebrate the Coming Spring

Whatever you call it, early February's cross-quarter day reconnects us with ancient astronomical timekeeping traditions.
Rebecca Boyle January 30, 2024
Dade City, Florida

Kumquat Growers

This central Florida farm is the largest producer of these little golden fruits in the United States.
giant food

Podcast: A Giant Spectacle in Goffstown

Row, row, row your pumpkin quickly down the stream.
The Podcast Team January 25, 2024
Ghawr as-Safi, Jordan

Ghawr as-Safi Sugar Mills

This millennium-old site reflects a time when sugar was a treasured commodity.
Clanton, Alabama

Big Peach Water Tower

The second-tallest water tower shaped like a peach in the American South.
Coffee flour makes for decadent pancakes.
food

Fight Food Waste With Unusual Flours

Add something extra to your baking.
Andrew Coletti January 15, 2024
Saint-Leu, Réunion

Musée Stella Matutina

A museum dedicated to the history of sugar cultivation on Réunion island.
Ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg are so-called warm spices and the quintessential flavors of winter holidays.
holidays

How Ginger, Cinnamon, and Nutmeg Became Winter Spices

These tropical "warm spices," which flavor many Christmas cookies and other holiday favorites, are mainstays of traditional medicine.
Serina DeSalvio December 18, 2023
Manatí, Puerto Rico

Frutos del Guacabo

This sustainable, family-run farm just outside of San Juan makes for a dreamy daytrip.
An ostrich egg, alongside a regular chicken egg for scale.
food

I Bought an Ostrich Egg, and Here's What I Made With It

First step: Grab a hammer.
Anne Ewbank November 20, 2023
Pöschel (left) and Schmelzer, with the mite-cheese monument in Würchwitz.
insects

The Biology Teacher Resurrecting Germany's 500-Year-Old Mite Cheese

At this charming farm, quirk meets quark to make a unique cheese.
Susannah Edelbaum November 13, 2023
St. Louis Park, Minnesota

Peavey-Haglin Experimental Concrete Grain Elevator

This unassuimng grain elevator, commonly confused for a smokestack, helped inspire the modern architecture movement.
Vidalia onions must be planted, harvested, and cured by hand.
onions

Looking for the Perfect Onion

From Georgia to New Zealand, the quest for a sweet, painless onion continues.
Mark Kurlansky November 7, 2023