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While I try to give appreciative lip service to each of the four seasons, it's those wonderfully long and often sunny days of summer that resonate most deeply.3.3

This is the kind of draw the Haddam Neck Fair is: Kathy Dumas doesn't even live in Haddam any more; she did for nine years, until taxes forced her to move to Meriden.3.2

The peppers, pears and other organic produce, laid out on a table outside Manhattan PS 180, came with prices low enough for the working poor.3.1

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Patty Judge Monday said that temperatures remained below normal this past week and precipitation was also below expected levels across the state.2.7

We do go on about Fair Trade at Treehugger; we think good working conditions and decent wages are important to making good green products.2.9

At Jasper Hill Farm, it's all about the cheese: pockmarked cylinders lined up row after pungent row in the sun-stippled cheese house.2.1

Nyssa High School teacher Kent Blanchard has become a familiar face within the school district and he said he attributes his success to one thing: the students.2.7

From suburban avocado groves in Goleta and Carpinteria to multimillion-dollar broccoli farms in the Santa Maria and Lompoc valleys, the county's farmland is disappearing.2.9

For most of us, California strawberries and bags of baby lettuce aren't foods we try to avoid.2

The force of gravity, as you experience it, seems impressively strong. That is not exactly how Lisa Randall, a theoretical physicist at Harvard, views the matter.2.9

Master Gardener enrollment is under way in southwest Missouri for anyone interested in gardening - and enthusiastic enough to share his knowledge by helping educate the ...2.7

Wallens Ridge State Prison PSYCHOLOGIST I Salary Range:$33,633.00-$52,508.00. Pos.2

Since July, there has been a new face in charge of what could arguably be the county's longest job title.2.7

Hernando County's continuing growth has led Jimmy Batten to conclude its time to sell and head to land in New Mexico and Texas.2.7

Put your own troubles aside and extend a hand to help a needy neighbor. That's life in the agriculture community.2.7

Shorter days and cooler nights are signals of an end to this year's growing season.2.7

Photo By Louise Valentine/The Epoch Times COMFORT FOOD: Pain-killing properties of extra virgin olive oil are documented in a recent study.2.9

The Eastern Regional branch of the Veterinary Medical Technicians Association of Ghana has called on the Accountants General's Department to stop the one percent deduction ...2.7

It's September already, and soon the short sleeves, light colors and sandals will go back in the closet for nine months.2.7

Beside me here on the desk are two ears of yellow corn, artifacts of an unkind year.2.7

A Clergyman, has appealed to all religious organisations in the country to pray for divine intervention for a favourable rainfall pattern this year.2.7

Water is not an unlimited resource, even in a place as rainy as the Stillaguamish River Valley.2.7

Now there's another reason to hate grasshoppers: economics. Just as horse owners are lathering their pets with fly sprays and buying fly masks to protect them from the ...2.7

The Netherlands has selected Ghana as a pilot country for the implementation of a Hunger Task Force to fight malnutrition in Africa.2.7

Sylvester W. Patten, who lived at 339 W. Roosevelt St. in DeKalb, died in 1910 at age 73.2.9

Angel Guadalupe Cruz, above, throws okra over his shoulder, into a basket he carries on his back, while he picks the vegetable.2.1

Vietnam has become one of world's leading rice exporters, with an annual export volume of over three million tonnes.2.9

Once again, it's fair play season. No, not football. We're talking about playing at the fair.2.7

The tinny, electronic notes were the precursor to giggles. "It won't stop," a student whispered, looking at the flickering calculator-size rectangle bursting into song on ...2

It's not how much wheat there is, but what kind of flour it will make that is making a difference in who's buying wheat and how much they're paying this fall.2.7

The golden Belgian Draft Horses waited patiently for the rock and roll music to quiet down, then they got down to their own business Saturday at the 30th Annual Silk Hope ...3.1

The United Nations Development Programme has launched the second phase of the community Management of Protected Areas conservation Project in its efforts to support ...2.7

PHOTO GALLERIES: Associated Press: * Latest images * Survival * Devastation * Floodwaters * Katrina's fury Houston Chronicle: * A temporary home opens at the Astrodome, ...2.7

For more information on Oak Glen's apple season, shops and directions visit www.oakglen.net or call 797-6833. OAK GLEN - Juicy berries, jumbo apples, live entertainment and ...2.9