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U.S.WorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamesCookingWirecutterThe AthleticYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.A shrub in impoverished Nepal now supplies the raw material for the bank notes used in Asia’s most s...

You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Must Farm Quarry, a Bronze Age site on a river channel in eastern England. “At times, excavating the site felt slightly rude and intrusive, as if we had turned up after a trage...

SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Farms drained part of the Merced for months. Officials didn’t find out until after the fact, raising questions about the state’s ability to manage supplies du...

Nal t’eel, an ancient variety of Mexican corn, is under threat from imported hybrids. Now a distillery is trying to give it a boost by using it to make whiskey.Credit...Benedicte Desrus for The New York TimesSeveral distillers are using local heirloom grain and exporting to the United States, the heart of another co...

The strawberry, blackberry and raspberry fields of the Pajaro Valley stretch for 10 miles along the coast of California’s Monterey Bay, jeweled with fruit from April through early December. The valley’s 30,000 acres of farmland are also ruffled with emerald lettuces, brussels sprouts and varieties of kale, bringing ...