…can give your garden as much of a pick me up as it does for you. For instance, sprinkle fresh coffee grounds around acid-loving plants like azaleas, hydrangeas, blueberries, and…
Elderberry Project Evaluates Viability of California Production
…also have a similar flavor and look to blackberries and blueberries but require fewer resources. In the Midwest, elderberry orchards have been increasing while California’s elderberries are typically grown on…
Vibrant Purple Sweet Potatoes are a Healthful Thanksgiving Surprise
…common orange varieties, plus anthocyanins,” Stoddard said. “It’s like eating a handful of blueberries with your sweet potato.” California is a significant producer of sweet potatoes. About 80 percent of…
Almond Producers Top Users of Pollination Services
…producers of almonds alone accounted for 80 percent of that amount, more than $280 million. By comparison, producers of apples and blueberries paid about $10 million each. Pollination services helped…
Making Science Make Sense for Teachers
…extracting strawberry DNA and measuring pH with blueberries. There was also an activity called Apple to Earth, which demonstrated the small ratio of the planet’s surface that can actually grow…
Agri View: Weather Costly to Producers
…registering unusually high crop losses. I told you about the peach crop, blueberries and early sweet corn. Now you can add the early watermelon crop. Not just winds. Wildfire losses…
Agri View: Spring Crop Damage
…days before spring. It hit fruit growers with a vengeance. Especially peaches and blueberries. Damage to peach trees, and the spring crop, has been estimated at about 40 percent. No…
Increased Blueberry Volumes from Naturipe
…will have good availability of quality, fresh blueberries,” he added. Now that the cool, wet weather is subsiding, “California production is gradually increasing. Albeit a bit later than last year,…
Help the Bees
…blueberries, just to name a few. Here are five ways to get involved to help the bees and monarchs, so they can help keep some of our favorite foods on…
Agri View: Berry Problems
…see added acres of berry crops every year. Mostly blueberries but there are others. And with each crop new or generations old a problem that most people do not give…
Agri View: Bees and Honey
…transported to California every year to pollinate tree nuts. They are also going to New York to pollinate apples. To Maine to pollinate blueberries and Massachusetts for cranberry crops. And…
Food and Ag Science Will Shape Our Future
…clothing Almost all breeds of blueberries and cranberries currently in production 80 percent of all varieties of citrus fruits grown in the U.S. and The mass production of penicillin during…
Edible Wild Plants
…-Blueberries and cranberries -Sheep sorrel -Chickweed -Red Clover -Garlic Mustard -Miner’s Lettuce -Common Cattail -Wild Ginger -Wild Strawberry -American Elderberry -Wild Rose Also you want to make sure plants you’ve…
New Toolkit for Teachers
…the lists below. Common foods grown/ produced in California almonds, apples, apricots, asparagus, artichokes, avocados, barley, beans, beef, black-eyed peas, blueberries, bread, broccoli, cabbage, cantaloupe, carrots, cauliflower, celery, cheese, cherries,…