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Lunar New Year or Spring Festival is an important holiday celebrated in China and other countries in East and Southeast Asia. Called Chunjie in China, Têt in Vietnam, Seollal in South Korea and Losar in Tibet, Lunar New Year is a multi-day celebration beginning on the first new moon of the lunisolar calendar and ending as the first full moon of the year takes its place. In 2021, Lunar New Year begins on February 12 and ushers in the Year of the Ox or Golden Cow.

In San Juan La Laguna, Guatemala, Indigenous Maya women are reclaiming the age-old art of handcrafting carmine, perhaps the most vibrant natural red dye in existence, and through the support of Heifer International Guatemala, they’re using that skill to boost their own small businesses.

There was no way for small-scale farmers in Ecuador to anticipate the COVID-19 pandemic more than a year ago when they started diversifying the products they grew and mapping efficient paths to get them to hungry urban markets. But when the coronavirus hit the South American nation hard, these farmers found themselves well-prepared to keep homebound customers fed.

Registered dietician Diana Rodgers wants you to know that eating red meat is good for you and, when raised well, good for the environment.

Comfort food, a delicious slice of nostalgia that soothes your soul — for me, that’s my mom’s meatloaf. Of all the dishes my mom made for our family growing up, this meatloaf was hands down our favorite meal.

Donna Kilpatrick is putting her expertise to work as the manager and land steward of Heifer Ranch, a 1,200-acre working farm in Perryville, just 40 miles to the west of Arkansas’ state capital in Little Rock.