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Trail through rose bushes.
Tyler, Texas

Tyler Rose Garden

The largest public collection of roses in the United States.
murals

Podcast: The Corn Palace

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team August 29, 2022
Kapa'a, Hawaii

Pineapple Dump Pier

A local pineapple cannery once dumped pineapple trimmings off of this pier, with sometimes smelly results.
Seen from space, the world's largest concentration of commercial greenhouses is a dazzling white patchwork.
horticulture

Southern Spain’s ‘Sea of Plastic’ May Actually Cool the Local Climate

The world’s largest array of greenhouses has transformed the region economically, and in other, unforeseen ways.
Gemma Tarlach July 15, 2022
Luther Burbank's original cottage, open 9 AM to noon Wednesdays by tour.
Sebastopol, California

Luther Burbank Experiment Farm

Home to an apple tree that can produce 25 different varieties of fruit.
The volunteers of Laguna nel Bicchiere tend to their vines.
wine

The Winemakers Bringing Viticulture Back to Venice

In the unlikely lagoon environment, long-lost grapes grow once again.
Eric Millman July 8, 2022
Climbing date trees can be a perilous task.
trees

How Baghdad’s Backyards Are Bringing Back Iraqi Dates

A company is using garden trees to revive an ancient industry.
Charlie Metcalfe July 1, 2022
Damaged remains of the weir
Wuk Wuk, Australia

Glenaladale Weir

The remains of a failed attempt to regulate Mitchell River.
McBryde Sugar Plantation Cemetery
Eleele, Hawaii

McBryde Sugar Plantation Cemetery

A burial ground for workers at one of Hawai'i's largest sugarcane producers that laid buried for decades.
Purple straw turns golden as it matures.
food

The Return of Purple Straw, an Iconic Southern Wheat

It has a whole team of champions working on its comeback.
Rachel Kester June 10, 2022
An aerial view of some of the fields at Wadi al-Dawasir.
Wadi ad-Dawasir, Saudi Arabia

Wadi al-Dawasir

These desert alfalfa farms redefine the meaning of crop circles.
Vendor Mónica Adriana Quimbayo has sold herbs and other plants at her stall in Plaza Samper Mendoza since she was 16.
science

This Bogotá Market Comes Alive Only at Night, Full of Ancient Plant Lore and Astonishing Biodiversity

Farmers and foragers set up at sunset to sell hundreds of species valued in traditional medicine and ritual.
María Paula Rubiano A. May 25, 2022
Antonio Ortega García adjusts slabs of stone, divering water from the Río Grande (foreground) to an <em>acequia</em>.
architecture

Southern Spain's Ancient Water Network Sustains Life but Faces an Uncertain Future

"Sowing water" in this mountainous region has been crucial for people, crops, and biodiversity for more than a millennium.
Kira Walker May 17, 2022
Pembroke, Maine

Reversing Hall Agrarian Library

An agricultural research library housed in a former Odd Fellows Lodge.
Leydy Pech considers traditional Maya beekeeping an "ancestral" calling.
mayan

The Keeper of Sacred Bees Who Took on a Giant

To save her native Maya bees and their shrinking forests, Leydy Pech waged a fierce campaign on multiple fronts.
Gemma Tarlach March 23, 2022
Nardane Kuşçu in her storage room at Narköy.
farms

The Educator Stockpiling—and Sharing—Turkey's Heritage Seeds

You don't save agricultural traditions without swapping some seeds.
Katie Nadworny March 18, 2022
farms

Podcast: Rhubarb Triangle

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team March 16, 2022
Murtoa Stick Shed
Murtoa, Australia

Murtoa Stick Shed

Though it may look like a Modernist cathedral, this structure was built to store massive quantities of grain during World War II.