Harvest

While Hurricane Irene left a wake of destruction through the Northeast, it also brought a bountiful harvest of delicate mushrooms.

Through pictures you can enjoy the sight of the golden wheat in its natural environment as it sways and dances in the wind awaiting to be harvested by the massive combines.

I start climbing, scaling the Cornucopia on my hands and feet. The pure gold surface has been designed to resemble the woven horn that we fill at harvest, so there are little ridges and seams to get a decent hold on.

Civets indulge on only the most exquisite coffee cherries, and excrete the partly eaten beans. The beans are then cultivated and the coffee sold all the way up to $600 per pound.

The Society of St. Andrew, a national anti-hunger organization, is coordinating with farmers to glean crops for food that would normally go to waste.

African farmers are abandoning their cocoa farms for other products that are easier to grow and to monetize, meaning that chocolate could soon become a pricey indulgence.

Soaring grain prices are a welcome surprise to farmers, many of whom feared that their yields and prices might plunge this year as a result of the wet summer.

The Maya peoples flourished in part because of clever farming techniques, including terracing, forest gardens, managed fallows, and wild harvesting.

During the poppy harvest, fighting between the Taliban and Marines stops to allow farmers to work. The scene holds a tepid trepidation, as fighting will resume at the end of the season.

A cool summer on the West Coast has forced a hurried harvest in the nation's top wine making regions. Vintners expect balanced and full-flavored wines to come from the grapes, which took longer to ripen and have less sugar.