The Slow Money National Gathering in Boulder, Colo., brought together small and local food enterprises with financiers as an antidote to big agriculture.

In Southern California, a year-round farmers market where the customers are wearing flip-flops.

Some local-movement chefs muscle through the colder months, while others make compromises.

The Danish celebrity chef Claus Meyer is opening a restaurant in La Paz, hoping to start a Bolivian food movement that will rediscover local ingredients.

The country’s first community-supported fishery is now part of a burgeoning movement that tries to do for small-scale local fishermen what community-supported agriculture has done for farmers.

Early apples are even earlier this year, but less red and crunchy.

In the banking hub of Charlotte, N.C., dedicated eaters heading here for the Democratic National Convention will find a city newly interested in how it eats.

You probably won’t find these plum varieties in the supermarket.

This version resembles a rounded head of lettuce, and has a sweet flavor, with only a hint of bitterness.

With an aging farm population and a looming shortage of migrant workers, local growers band together for collective organic clout.