Jim Durst will tell you that good vegetables begin underground. Feed the soil, he likes to say, and it will more »

Jim Durst will tell you that good vegetables begin underground. Feed the soil, he likes to say, and  more »

While zucchini is technically a fruit, almost no one treats it like one. This summer squash has a mild, slightly more »

While zucchini is technically a fruit, almost no one treats it like one. This summer squash has a  more »

It was the early 1990s when Nan McEvoy fell for a quiet stretch of rolling hills outside Petaluma, Calif. The more »

It was the early 1990s when Nan McEvoy fell for a quiet stretch of rolling hills outside Petaluma,  more »

The fingerling potato doesn’t look like much at first. Small and knobby, it tends to get overlooked in favor of more »

The fingerling potato doesn’t look like much at first. Small and knobby, it tends to get overlooked  more »

There’s something about eating outside that makes everything taste better. Maybe it’s the sun, maybe it’s the company, or maybe more »

There's something about eating outside that makes everything taste better. Maybe it's the sun, maybe  more »

W.H. Deardorff started his company in Los Angeles in 1937, bringing together crops from growers scattered across the basin into more »

W.H. Deardorff started his company in Los Angeles in 1937, bringing together crops from growers  more »