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Banana Mango Pineapple Pears: Growing the Legendary North American Pawpaw
A close-up of two pawpaws on a branch.

Food & Water

Banana Mango Pineapple Pears: Growing the Legendary North American Pawpaw

The elusive pawpaw is legendary for its unique flavor and texture. Seeking them out isn't always easy, but it's worth it.

How to make your own pickle bouquet
A woman arranges vegetables into a pickle bouquet.

Food & Water

How to make your own pickle bouquet

A step-by-step guide for a vinegary valentine.

Chocolate Farmers' Bittersweet Harvest
Digna Magdelena Silva Narváez (31) cuts open cocoa pods with a machete in Sucumbios Provence, Ecuador

Food & Water

Chocolate Farmers' Bittersweet Harvest

The world is in love with Amazonian chocolate. Heifer Ecuador is making sure chocolate loves its farmers back.

Adventurous Eaters Will Love Whole Fish Grilled in Banana Leaves
Top-down view of a woman wrapping a red whole tilapia in a banana leaf, next to a wooden bowl full of fish with cilantro on top.

Food & Water

Adventurous Eaters Will Love Whole Fish Grilled in Banana Leaves

A family in Ecuador shows us how they grill tilapia and macachama in banana leaves with cilantro to make a toothsome, tropical meal.

The True Cost of Our Coffee Habit
A close-up of green coffee cherries on the branch with one red cherry, and a hand picking the red cherry.

Food & Water

The True Cost of Our Coffee Habit

Regardless of how much we pay for our morning cup of coffee, chances are good that the farmers who grew it see very little of the profit and live...

Wuhan outbreak raises questions about safe food choices
a coronavirus

Announcements

Wuhan outbreak raises questions about safe food choices

choose your meat carefully

Rats That Are Making The World A Better Place
A rat stuck in the grate of a manhole cover looks directly into the camera. She is too fat around the middle to get out so she is stuck and irritated about it, but unhurt. Image by Berufstierrettung Rhein Neckar.

Animals

Rats That Are Making The World A Better Place

This Chinese New Year falls on Saturday, January 25, 2020 kicking off the Year of the Rat. Here are a few rats whose honorable service or winning...

Fighting Fire with Goats
Uma Sinjali Magar takes her goats out to graze in the Chitwan district of Nepal.

Animals

Fighting Fire with Goats

A surprising hero has emerged to help the world’s wildfire problem ¬– the ever-versatile goat. These animals that we love have come through...