…air, so it’s better to get them in before the summer scorches everything. Lettuce and salad greens can tolerate an occasional frost. Loose-leaf varieties come up really quickly. Cauliflower and…
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…
Cheap Healthy Eats
…benefits of of their nutrition. For example, some delicious nutrient-dense foods include: Sweet Potatoes Green Apples Romaine Lettuce Lentils Bananas Frozen or Fresh Broccoli Flax or Chia Seeds Oats Zucchini…
Apple Cider Vinegar Hacks for Cleaning
…Hacks for Cleaning Apple Cider Vinegar can liven up your lettuce and keep your house clean without chemicals. Like all vinegar, apple cider vinegar has potent antimicrobial properties and contains…
Breadless Sandwiches
…green leafy lettuce. Layer on your favorite protein and filling wrap them with the lettuce into rolls. Red Bell pepper sandwich. Just like you would the cucumber, cut in half…
Organic produce growers sought for research study
…Organic Farmers and fertilize with raw manure or untreated manure from dairy cattle, horses or poultry. The farms can grow any of the following produce: lettuce, spinach, carrots, radishes, tomatoes…
Winter Vegetable Harvest Gets Early Start
…market gap while farmers in more southern regions accelerate their production, but Hawk said there’s not likely to be a shortage during the transition this year. “There’s lettuce, romaine; other…
Future of Our Agricultural Community
…scheduling tool for lettuce growers, helps growers schedule irrigation and fertilizer events on a block level basis, as well as archive and manage the information for later reporting requirements. Right…
Edible Wild Plants
…and Cranberries Miners Lettuce Wild Rose Flower Sheep Sorrel American Elderberry Red Clover Garlic Mustard Wild Ginger Wild Strawberry Currants Edible Burdock American Elderberry Lemonade Gooseberries Wild Rose Common Cattail…
Big Increases in Southern County Crop Report
…5 percent increase over 2014 in leaf lettuce, which moved it back into the county’s top five commodities. It ranked at number five for 2015, after hitting at only number…
Early-Autumn Weather Affects Coastal Crops
…said, they should be OK. In Arroyo Grande, where Tom Ikeda grows leafy vegetables such as lettuce and cabbages, the heat wasn’t doing him or his crops any favors. “We…
New Toolkit for Teachers
…chicken, chickpeas, cucumbers, dates, eggs, figs, garlic, grapefruits, grapes, green beans, honeydew, kiwi fruit, leaf lettuce, lemons, lima beans, milk, mushrooms, nectarines, oats, olives, onions, oranges, peaches, pears, pecans, peppers,…
Certified Organic Production Sales Up 13 Percent
…up 20 percent from $251 million in 2014. Lettuce, $262 million, down less than 1 percent from $264 million in 2014. The vast majority of certified organic agricultural products sold…
Transplanting System Saving Labor, Increasing Yields
A company continues to test its automated lettuce transplanting system on the Central Coast. The Plant Tape system takes a lot of labor out of the transplanting process and company…