Joseph's Catholic Church in Nipomo, fathers took in the great weather with their families at the church's annual celebration, which featured plenty of barbecue and an opportunity to share fellowship with friends from the community. It's now less of a fundraiser and more of a time of community fellowship. Father James Henry has seen the event change to include a diverse section of the community. The church's barbecues were stoked with red oak early as organizers cooked 1,500 half-chickens...

Supporters of farmers markets believe that because their produce does not travel as far as supermarket produce , farmers can pick the food at the peak of its flavor, ripeness and nutritional content. In addition to helping you heed moms admonitions to eat more vegetables, farmers markets present an excellent opportunity for people to directly support local producers. Their outdoors festival atmosphere attracts people who want to talk with farmers about the methods used to grow their...

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Two days later, we were a mile off the Havana coast, hoping to strike lucky in what I was told was the oldest big game fishing competition in the world. By the mid-60s, when almost all the Cuban bourgeoisie - as they were being described by then - had left the island, only a few locals were taking part. Think big game fishing and you might imagine huge, gleaming boats with names like "Wet Dream", and immaculately turned out crews. The 1980 tournament was cancelled, as that summer the...

It's part of a creation at Canstruction, an annual competition in which architects and engineers build structures out of canned food, then donate the food to Food Lifeline, Washington's largest food bank. It looked like something in which a toddler would love to climb, but in a few days the car will become meals on dinner tables for the hungry across Western Washington. Canstruction, born 15 years ago in Seattle, is now a national competition in 80 cities that raises awareness of hunger...