Farmers' markets tap into tradition
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The cheese guy stands beside the meat guy, who stands beside the vegetable guy at the Marblehead Farmers' Market.
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In the face of new competition primarily from China, produce farmers have joined forces for the first time.
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The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo  began 75 years ago as a tribute to Western culture and  heritage, but has morphed into a slick extravaganza aimed at  luring urban cowboys and cowgirls with pop concerts and wine  auctions.
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After almost 50 years of teaching  folk traditions in Chicago, the Old Town School of Folk Music  is making a bigger move into the world of music retailing.
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By James Hannah  MARTINSVILLE  --  Tucked away in the den of his 127-year-old farmhouse, Ed Winkle huddles over his computer.   The screen's soft glow lights up his eyeglasses, reflecting messages about tractors, corn hybrids and crop insurance.
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The Badgley Mischka spring collection offers a grand mix of town and country.
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The Salvation Army workers and volunteers who attract shoppers outside stores with their dinging bells have long been one of the more reliable sights and sounds of the holiday shopping season.
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By Andy Reid, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Feb. 23--A new marketplace planned to spring from agricultural land west of Boynton Beach got a go-ahead Thursday from the Palm Beach County Commission.
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NEW YORK -- In a too-hip-to-be-true loft in Soho last week, waiters wearing all black glided around the room, placing in front of two dozen food and travel journalists pristine plates of roasted loin and braised Elysian Fields Farm lamb shortribs with Belgian endive, dried anjou pear and sweet pepper.
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An earthy abundance from local farms comes through the loading docks of the Culinary Institute of America: sprigs of asparagus in the spring, peas and beets in the summer, apples and squash in the fall. The food &#151; much of it taken from the soil the day before &#151; provides fresh fodder from the Hudson Valley for the riverside school's five restaurants and classroom kitchens.
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In its heyday, Hong Kong's famous Bird Garden market bustled with shoppers bargaining in Cantonese for exotic birds for sale as pets or for Buddhist rituals.
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Here's a good way to make sure you're in the market on its best days.
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Comment is free: Jay Rayner: It's easy for some of us to buy free-range, but the lauding of farmers' markets ignores those for whom cheap food is essential
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By Keith Lawrence, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Sep. 18--Barbecue, bluegrass, pumpkins, apples, monsters and the rather dramatic arrival of jolly ol' St. Nick are on tap this fall at a dozen area festivals.
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By Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 11--Pork was scarce in the Middle Ages, so merchants could command a pretty penny for a bag holding a baby pig.
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The cranberry, a Thanksgiving holiday icon in the New World, is bouncing back from a market slump thanks to the Old World.
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GUILDERLAND, NY Socially conscious consumers have made fair trade brews a rapidly growing niche of the coffee market. The beans can now be found on supermarket shelves next to the Folgers and in the espresso at Dunkin&#39; Donuts.