U.S. farm wives out of kitchen and off the farm
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Across the U.S. Midwest, women are keeping farms running, not by driving trucks or feeding cows, but by working in stores, offices and factories.
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By Teresa Lewi, The Baltimore Sun  Jun. 13--When Helen Tuel left her job as a dental hygienist in the early 1980s, she decided to become a farmer. Instead of raising livestock or growing crops, she decided to try a now-popular alternative called agritourism.
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Wheat is steadily being replaced by corn as the crop of choice for American farmers.
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Women in this Indian village high in the pine-clad mountains of Oaxaca rise each morning at 4 a.m. to gather firewood, grind corn, prepare the day's food, care for the children and clean the house.
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By Karen Holzmeister  CASTRO VALLEY -- Yet another former chicken ranch is in the news, facing the competing issues of preservation versus development.   Hayman Homes of Burlingame is temporarily shelving plans to subdivide 10.5 acres on Proctor Road for 22 homes.
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By Jake Armstrong, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Mar. 6--TRACY -- Some residents live in homes heated by ovens. Others sleep on rear patios fashioned into makeshift apartments. They pay rent to stay there.
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Afghan women find economic freedom, dietary benefits in vegetable crops.
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GUIHUA, China -- For years now, nearly half the rice, wheat and vegetable farmers in this village in Henan province have been unable to make a living off their land. They have turned instead to more profitable migrant work in large, faraway cities.
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Honeybees have been vanishing at an alarming rate from 24 American states, threatening crops.
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LONG BEACH, Calif., Oct. 23 -- Despite news reports casting them as leading voices in their husbands' campaigns, the spouses of several of the 2008 presidential candidates played down their influence at a joint appearance Tuesday.
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Two years after learning their jobs would disappear, the last production workers walked out of Maytag&#39;s Galesburg plant Thursday, some hauling cut-rate refrigerators or work
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As Omar Minaya and Brian Cashman depart for Thanksgiving vacations with their families, they have a lot in the oven but not much on the table.
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Some small farms, faced with stagnant income and mounting expenses, are opening up their operations to nonagricultural activities just to survive.
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Charlene Hennessy cooked dinner one Sunday night at her Germantown home, in another act of downsizing her life. Six months ago, she and her husband relied a lot more on restaurants, buying takeout a few times a week. Now she is wary of every little splurge.
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Martha Stewart, flanked by US Marshals, leaves after sentencing at Manhattan federal court, in New York in this July 16, 2004 file photo.
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Brits are finding a home away from home in RVs.
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Fields of wheat, durum and barley in the Dakotas this dry summer will never end up as pasta, bread or beer. What is left of the stifled crops has been salvaged to feed livestock struggling on pastures where hot winds blow clouds of dirt from dried-out ponds.