Facing a Main Street dotted with vacant stores, residents of Hardwick, Vt., are betting on farming to make it the town that was saved by food.

The community-supported agriculture business model is exploding in the suburbs of New York and elsewhere, allowing farmers and consumers to forge a personal relationship.

The Tri-County Cooperative Auction Market in East Windsor, N.J., still serves as a meeting place for farmers, who talk about the weather and the price of gasoline.

The number of people leaving other careers and choosing the simpler life that farming offers is growing.

Organizers of nine farmers’ markets in New York City took the rare step of suspending a farmer for selling meat he did not raise on his farm.

The idea of a “vertical farm” has captured the imagination of several architects and city planners who envision skyscrapers as farms.

In a desperate effort to force a price increase, the Federation of German Dairy Farmers began a delivery boycott on Tuesday.

For years, city dwellers have raised fruits and vegetables to feed their families, but now more and more of them are growing food to sell to a wider market.