…intensive labor to harvest, making them more susceptible to forced labor or exploitation. Others frequently mentioned are cattle/dairy, oranges, tomatoes, and strawberries. Often an agricultural contract will promise an hourly…
The California Kitchen: Strawberry Candied Pecan Chicken Breast
…oz Chicken Breast Skin Salt/Pepper 2 T Arbosana Olive Oil 2 Cup Strawberries blended ½ Cup Sugar 3 T Cream ½ T Xanthan Gum 8 oz Pecans Raw 4 oz…
The California Kitchen: Strawberry Puff Pastry
…Egg 1 Cup Strawberries 2 T Sugar ½ Cup Walnuts 1 Cup Strawberry Cream Cheese TT Powdered Sugar To get the cooking directions, listen to today’s California Kitchen from AgNet…
The California Kitchen: Strawberry and Basil Cream Cheese
…1 Cup Diced Strawberries 1 Vanilla Bean 1 pinch salt 2 T Sugar To get the cooking directions, listen to today’s California Kitchen from AgNet West. California Kitchen For this…
National Strawberry Day
…a Strawberry-Banana Smoothie, Strawberry Pizza, or Strawberries and Cream Bread Pudding. I’m Cathy Isom… From: Food.com Strawberries and Cream Bread Pudding by Montana Heart Song Ingredients Servings 8 10slices dry…
Vertical Garden Ideas
…a bit now in commercial farming. Vertical tower gardens are also quite popular by stacking large food-grade tubes or buckets. Things like strawberries, herbs, lettuce, and so on are planted…
Agri View: Farming Technology
…The development of this technology isn’t likely to cease any time soon. It is driven by need. One item currently under development is the mechanical strawberry picker. You see, strawberries…
Year of the Pansy
…ago and is part of the Rosaceae family which is very important for our food supply (think apples, strawberries, etc…). There are more than 150 species of Roses but only…
Agri View: Hard Choices
…workers pick and package strawberries directly into boxes in the Salinas Valley of central California. Image ID:474844870 Copyright: David Litman Editorial Credit: David Litman / Shutterstock.com (Bottom right) Salinas, California,…
Statistics Available for California Crop Year 2015
…$3.40 billion Lettuce — $2.26 billion Strawberries — $1.86 billion Tomatoes — $1.71 billion Flowers and Foliage — $1.08 billion Walnuts — $977 million Hay — $945 million Agricultural Exports…
Making Spinach with Low Oxalate Levels
…economically important vegetable crop worldwide and it’s considered healthful because of its high concentration of a number of key nutrients. Foods such as beets, rhubarb, strawberries, nuts, chocolate, tea, wheat…
Agri View: Labor Intensive Crop
Everett Griner talks about strawberries being labor intensive and different to grow in today’s Agri View. Labor Intensive Crop Strawberries. Consistently rated as America’s favorite fruit. Chances are better than…
Agri View: Country of Origin Labeling Choice
…of Hepatitis resulted in some serious problems. Eight states. Problems with strawberries. Imported strawberries. While the domestic crop was available, nobody in eight states could distinguish between homegrown and imported….
Demand for Brussels sprouts is booming
…1960s, he said. “They were growing strawberries, broccoli, cauliflower, a lot of the things that we grow here on the Central Coast,” Bontadelli said. “When the Brussels sprouts started becoming…