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Come fall 1,000 pounds of garlic harvested from the Garden of Eve Organic Farm in Aquebogue, is cause for celebration.

A group of cacao farmers in Ecuador have become the world’s most unusual chocolate entrepreneurs by making and marketing their own chocolate.

The green crusade, with its emphasis on organic and local products, seems to be spurring interest in farms as the ideal venue for vows.

The organic industry is starting to show signs that a decade-long sales boom may be coming to an end.

Most community-supported agriculture programs in the region are fully subscribed for the current growing season, so Westchester residents hoping to join one should start planning for 2009. Here is a selection with pickup points in or near the county.

Membership prices and terms are for the current 2008 growing season, for which most C.S.A.’s are fully subscribed.

Shares in community-supported agriculture programs have been almost impossible to come by this summer, even with prices that run as high as $600 for the season. If the C.S.A.’s near you are filled, check back; several are already planning major expansions for 2009.

Changes in county law have made it easier in recent years to run a farm in Westchester.

Honey Brook Organic Farm, 260 Wargo Road, Pennington; (609) 737-8899; www.honeybrookorganicfarm.com. Started in 1991, Honey Brook’s C.S.A. is one of the largest community-supported agriculture programs in the country, with 2,313 members participating from June through November. Pickup at the farm is available, as is delivery to off-site locations. Members can also pick some of their own produce currently edamame, tomatillos and okra, for example. The C.S.A. is fully subscribed for the season; ...

Facing a Main Street dotted with vacant stores, residents of Hardwick, Vt., are betting on farming to make it the town that was saved by food.

On a recent Sunday morning, in a steady rain, the crowd at the Morristown Farmers’ Market was smaller than usual; shoppers who didn’t mind getting wet had plenty of space to poke around. Farmers from near and far corners of New Jersey set up covered stalls and offered apples, cauliflower and plump pumpkins. Specialty vendors brought littleneck clams, organic gazpacho and olive spreads.

Much has been made of Paul Newman’s legacy as an actor, but less attention has been paid to his impact on organic snacking.

Organic food and animal husbandry bring Gabrielle Langholtz, the publicist for the Greenmarket, and Craig Haney, the livestock manager at Stone Barns, together.

Many dieters are shunning deprivation diets and instead focusing on adding seasonal vegetables, nuts, berries and other healthful foods to their plates.

It used to be, an egg was an egg, but now the incredible, edible egg is becoming unintelligible.