…a Farmers Market in Your StateUSDA. Agricultural Marketing Service. Video: Farmers Markets: Fresh, Nutritious, Local (USDA) Why shop at farmers markets? Fresh, nutritious, locally grown fruits and vegetables are just…
Backyard Chicks
…pellets. You can even make a homemade chicken feeder / waterer Treats – Vegetables, bread, bugs, chicken scratch (cracked corn, milo, wheat) What’s next? Now that you’ve skimmed the basics…
Funding Supports Local Food and Specialty Crops
…competitive grants to help strengthen local and regional food systems, develop new market opportunities for producers, and support farmers growing fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, flowers and nursery crops (known collectively…
Homegrown Strawberries
…fruits that come out in the summer for one picking season. They are sensitive to the length of the day, which is how the plant knows when to expand, flower…
Healthier Shopping
…produce to purchase without increasing their budgets.” Other in-store decision aides Payne and Niculescu have used include placing placards in shopping carts promoting fruits and vegetables as well as strategically…
Produce in the Checkout Aisle
Would you buy more fruits and vegetables if they were right there in the supermarket checkout aisle, say next to your favorite candy bar or junk magazine? Are stores really…
Agri View: Standards and Grades Facts
…marketing and procurement. Quality Standards USDA provides quality standards for agricultural products such as cotton, dairy, fruits and vegetables, livestock, poultry, nuts, and processed foods. Quality Standards for Grain USDA…
What is GMO Food?
…GM seeds are subject to intellectual property rights owned by corporations. Learn more from Wikipedia: History Process Crops Fruits and vegetables Corn Soy Derivative products Corn starch and starch sugars,…
Purple Produce
…produce Beyond the mere beauty of purple produce, such as blueberries, blackberries, plums, purple potatoes and eggplant, lies a nutrient-packed, health-protective profile. Purple fruits and vegetables can thank the presence…
Agri View: Apple Orchards
…of the Americas brought with them their English customs and favorite fruits, much favored over the native crab apple. The Lady apple, a variety still grown today, is believed to…
EPA: $3.3 Million in Funding for Water Reuse and Conservation Research
…potable water reuse systems in the United States. University of California Riverside, Riverside, Calif. to measure levels of contaminants of emerging concern in common vegetables and other food crops irrigated…
Confusing Chicken Labels
…salmonella illnesses are actually fruit and vegetables. In addition, salmonella on whole chickens has decreased by 66 percent over the last 5 years. Learn key salmonella stats and simple tips…
Agri View: Chicken Wings
…to fish and vegetables on Fridays…Some regulars had been spending a lot of money, and Dom asked his mother to make something special to pass around gratis at the stroke…
Agri View: Bee Gone
…species plays a more significant role in producing the fruits and vegetables that we humans commonly take for granted yet require near daily to stay alive, the greatest modern scientist…