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Managing vegetables postharvest provides health benefits
HOUSTON — Does your salad know what time it is? It may be healthier for you if it does, according to new research from Rice University and the University of California at Davis.“Vegetables and fruits don’t die the moment they are harvested,” said Rice biologist Janet Braam, the lead researcher on a new study this
Some days are meant to last forever
Someone — my great-grandfather, my grandmother, my dad, someone — told me how fathers announced the upcoming wedding of their daughters more than a century ago in the small, southern Illinois farming community where I was raised. The story goes like this: After a wedding date was set, the bride’s father saddled his finest horse
Retail staple food prices edge down
WASHINGTON — Retail food prices at the supermarket dipped slightly during the third quarter of 2010, according to the latest American Farm Bureau Federation Marketbasket Survey. The informal survey shows the total cost of 16 food items that can be used to prepare one or more meals was $46.17, down $1.03 or 2 percent compared
New Long-term Study Shows More Benefits of Family Mealtimes
By Julie Garden-Robinson, Food and Nutrition Specialist One morning as I was brushing my teeth, I heard a snippet on a national news program about new family meals research. I zipped into the living room with my toothbrush still in hand, wanting to hear more. We at the NDSU Extension Service launched “The Family Table”
Grasshoppers and pumpkins
Eliza Blue discusses the surprising benefits grasshoppers had on her winter squash plants this year.
Author shared farm life observations
Clovis Webb had left his tractor and hay baler overnight in a rented field on the old Monroe County Poor Farm, which is no longer used for the poor. The Soil Conservation Service share-rented the hayfield to Clovis. The field was fenced, but the night he left his tractor there vandals cut the fence and
Red Basket Farm uses high tunnels to extend Ohio growing season
More than 70 varieties of vegetables are grown on farm, marketed to consumers and restaurants.
Sprouts, microgreens rule at Mung Dynasty
PITTSBURGH – Maximizing the potential of microgrowing makes harvest a daily event at Mung Dynasty farm on Pittsburgh’s south side.
Cookbook is a feast for the mind
“Take nine eggs, one-half pound of butter or a tea cup of olive oil, three cold cooked chickens or one medium-sized turkey, two or three bunches of celery .
Columbiana County Agriculture Hall of Fame to induct Garwoods, Hahn
The late Hazel Hahn, of Minerva, and Carl and Joann Garwood, of Fairfield Township, will be enshrined in the Columbiana County Agriculture Hall of Fame.
