DAVENPORT - For 20 years, Joe Curry has dry-farmed organic tomatoes on a 136-acre ranch off a windy road in the hills above Davenport. Not even flames whipping across his brush-covered landscape could convince Curry to pour water on them now. “We’ll …
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Organic dairy farmer Dante Hesse is hoping the customers who lap up his milk by the quart at local New York farmers’ markets will also invest in his future. What started as a series of “low key” one-on-one conversations with customers at local …
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Bird friendly. Fair trade. Organic. Shade grown. Rainforest Alliance. What lovely phrases. Who wouldn’t want to be a part of something, as a retailer or consumer, that markets itself as bird friendly or fair trade? These are terms that the coffee …
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At last, the local field-tomato season is in full swing. At farmers markets and at many grocery stores you will be able to find an abundance of locally grown field tomatoes. Those are field tomatoes as opposed to greenhouse tomatoes, which rarely …
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Pike Place Express at City Hall Plaza, operating Tuesdays, and Cascade Farmer’s Market, operating Thursdays, are two seasonal satellite farmers markets launching next week. A dozen Pike Place Market producers will be selling fresh produce, flowers …
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CHICO — This is kind of a butterfly view of the Saturday farmers market, flitting from one thing to another, but the things that caught my eye were disparate, colorful and enticing. First was a bunch of ripening pistachio nuts from Greening …
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This fruit is the star of Saturday’s Organic Stone Fruit Jubilee, an event that amounts to a giant tasting. Farmers will offer up slices of about 60 varieties of fresh fruit and sell boxes of it. La Boulangerie and Dolce Arte European Bakery will …
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Lawyers, farmers, environmentalists and government officials have been arguing about that for decades. Now, efforts are underway internationally and in the United States to establish standards for sustainable agriculture that could have a real impact …
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In no-till farming, farmers plant their seeds through a cover crop instead of plowing. This helps the soil retain carbon. Tilling releases that carbon. Farmers who follow no-till practices do not leave their fields bare but keep crops on the land to …
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Poultry farmers who falsely claim their eggs are free-range can now be caught out by a test to identify whether hens are caged or not. Lower Hutt researcher Karyne Rogers said her test done on yolk, albumen and membrane would prevent the mislabelling …
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