We eat like peasants

With the passage of time, food tastes better and better

By Mike Madison

The mundane offers a subtle and cumulative pleasure.

The road to Venus

Growing grapes

By Mike Madison

In which the farmer plants a vineyard and discovers that grapes with seeds face a tough market.

Perfect tomato

The Platonic ideal in fruit

By Mike Madison

The proliferation of digitally tuned electronic images is unstoppable.

Meredith

By Mike Madison

Babying little crops of tender vegetables.

Marika

By Mike Madison

Happy is as happy does.

Gophers

By Mike Madison

Olives versus rodents.

Figs

By Mike Madison

A farmer on figs.

Eat bitterness

The supersweet gene

By Mike Madison

Not everybody has a sweet tooth.

Bruce

By Mike Madison

Should a farmer charge three dollars or one dollar a pound?