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Third-generation corn farmer Paul Siegel says working the land will always be his true love. "There's nothing like planting a seed, nurturing it and harvesting it," says the owner of Siegel's Cottonwood Farms in Crest Hill, Ill., near Chicago. But Siegel admits that it is his annual Pumpkin Fest that keeps his farm afloat. Started in 1990, with a pumpkin patch and hayrides, Siegel's fall festival has mushroomed into a full-fledged theme park complete with haunted barns, a petting zoo, a 10-acre corn maze and snacks such as smoked turkey legs, kettle corn...
...seems to have reversed course. Earlier this month, Pyongyang banned sales of grain in the country's recently legalized farmers' markets and announced a return to the old socialist system of government-controlled rice handouts. Private grain markets were just a stop-gap measure necessitated by a few bad harvests, according to the North Korean official in charge of our group, Choe Jong Hun. "Now we have a good harvest and we are able to feed ourselves," said Choe. "There is no need to sell rice in the markets...
...receiving shipments of food from outside is galling for a government that constantly lectures on the merits of juche (self-reliance). Donations also give adversaries leverage in political negotiations. Claiming this year's rice harvest is up 10%, North Korea announced last month that it doesn't need humanitarian aid. On Oct. 1, official rice rations for adults doubled to 500 grams a day, the bare minimum for survival, according to the U.N.'s World Food Program (WFP). WFP officials who visited Pyongyang's biggest market this month saw "empty tables, empty stalls" where grain vendors once worked, says...
...Whitehouse's modest home is filled with aluminum cans--soda cans, soup cans and vegetable cans--that she collects from neighbors or finds during her periodic expeditions along the roadside. Two times a month, she takes them to a recycler, who pays her as much as $30 for her harvest of castoffs. When your fixed income is $942 a month, an extra $30 here and there makes a big difference. After paying rent, utilities and insurance, Whitehouse is left with less than $40 a week to cover everything else. So the money from cans helps pay medical bills...
...Wind” evokes the sorely-missed western aesthetic last heard on his 2000 record “Silver and Gold,” but most fully realized on Young’s folksier mid-seventies albums “Comes a Time” and “Harvest...