A group of cacao farmers in Ecuador have become the world’s most unusual chocolate entrepreneurs by making and marketing their own chocolate.

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.

Organic food and animal husbandry bring Gabrielle Langholtz, the publicist for the Greenmarket, and Craig Haney, the livestock manager at Stone Barns, together.

It used to be, an egg was an egg, but now the incredible, edible egg is becoming unintelligible.

Over the past few years, farmers and millers have begun restoring wheat fields and reviving flour mills around the country.

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.

Farmers’ markets, “foodie” clubs, co-op farms and chefs who specialize in Island-based entrees are giving Long Islanders plenty of opportunities to dine on local fare.

Starting a small farm can pay rich dividends, especially if the farm produces niche foods like artisanal cheeses or truffles. But don’t quit your day job.

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 Slow Food faithful say they want a Labor Day festival, ambitiously named Slow Food Nation, to be the Woodstock of food.