…strawberries. “As the hillsides dry down and spring turns to summer, lygus bugs immigrate into strawberry-growing areas,” Nieto said. “The idea is if you can provide them with a feeding…
What You Can Grow in a Straw Bale Garden
…with their own roots. The plants that do very well on straw bales include, tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, turnips. Fruiting plants are also excellent candidates. Such as strawberries, yellow squash, zucchini,…
Natural Make-up
…blush or even an eye shadow. Strawberries would work similar to raspberries. So give those a try if you want something a little lighter in color. Cacao is another food…
Report Names Ag Labor in Human Trafficking List
…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…