Friday, November 20, 2009
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Steve Mann doesn't look like an outlaw as he cheerfully harvests giant rutabagas and luscious lettuce bunches from a friend's garden in Kansas City, North. But technically he is violating Kansas City ordinances as he prepares to sell the produce. Bro ...
Friday, November 20, 2009 11:03 AM
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BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- Schoolchildren in Boulder Valley are giving a thumbs-down to healthier food in the cafeteria. The school district said fewer elementary school students are eating hot lunches this year after the district spent hundreds of thousands to give their cafeterias a healthy ...
Saturday, November 14, 2009 12:33 PM
SWEET HOME, Ore. -- Jan Neilson rarely gets in Mariano Battro's whey. He sometimes gets in hers, but that's why he was hired. Jan and her husband, Larry, produce goat's milk cheese at their dairy, Fraga Farm. Demand for their certified organic goat cheese has grown so much that they ...
Saturday, November 14, 2009 12:03 PM
PORTLAND -- Speakers at an organic farm food-safety summit Friday, Nov. 6, said there is no silver bullet and no magic pathogen killer against contamination in raw fruits and vegetables. The only answer is prevention. The stakes are high, participants were told at the summit, presen ...
Saturday, November 14, 2009 12:03 PM
TULALIP, Wash. (AP) -- In this day and age, it's not enough for farmers to grow food. They also must be experts at marketing, Twitter and Facebook. They must protect their land not just from development but from ecological wear and tear. They must work against a nationa ...
Thursday, November 12, 2009 12:14 AM
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Whole Foods Market Inc. said Wednesday that its business has officially turned the corner as sales and profit grew in the fourth quarter. The organic grocer was hard hit by the recession as consumers cut back on their spending and focused on more va ...
Thursday, November 12, 2009 12:13 AM
CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) -- The sun sinks behind the western horizon, an orange glow lingers behind the fluorescent lights of an oil station northwest of Carlsbad. The faint whirr of oil pumps and chirp of crickets are all that can be detected by the human ear -- but on other frequencies, it is ...
Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:03 AM
Necco wafers to shed artificial colors, flavorings BOSTON (AP) -- All-natural may be all the rage in the food world, but will candy lovers have a sweet tooth for beet juice and purple cabbage? Necco hopes so. The 162-year-old Massachusetts company is taking its venerable Ne ...
Thursday, October 29, 2009 7:31 PM
CHARLESTON, Ore. (AP) -- Aiming to capitalize on a growing demand for raw, organic produce, the Coquille Tribe is taking the hard route to harvesting cranberries this season. To harvest deep red berries in the raw, the tribe will put its back into the year's bountiful crop through a techn ...
Thursday, October 29, 2009 7:30 PM
HARVEY, N.D. (AP) -- A flour mill company is spreading out in Harvey. Earth Harvest Mills held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday. The federal Agriculture Department's Rural Development director, Jasper Schneider, said three loans through the agency provided $2.2 million to help the company ...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 4:48 PM
MABTON, Wash. -- When Hilario Alvarez started his small farming operation in 1988 he tended 20 acres along Mabton's Murray Road, where he planted four tomato varieties along with a few different zucchini and garlic plants. Now, 21 years later, Alvarez oversees a 70-acre organic farm that ...
Saturday, October 24, 2009 11:03 AM
TWIN FALLS, Idaho -- The viability of their industry was the top issue for the 150 producers who gathered for the Western Organic Dairy Producers Alliance's convention. A highlight of last week's convention was a panel of dairy processors that addressed producers' questions on how to get ...
Saturday, October 24, 2009 10:03 AM
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Tucked in a secluded patch of ranchland in Catalina, a bug's life has taken center stage for years. Dubbed the fly eliminator, the insect is produced at ARBICO Organics and sold around the world as a fly killer that harms no people or animals. Owners of horses and lives ...
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 9:18 AM
Although the economic downturn may have squeezed some consumers out of the organic marketplace, the industry is still growing -- so much so that in some cases manufacturers find it difficult to meet demand, according to a USDA report. "Only one segment has not kept pace -- organic farms h ...
Saturday, October 10, 2009 2:03 PM
MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) -- The Latah County Commission has denied a Texas-based church's appeal to establish a sustainable agriculture school near the small town of Deary. The commission voted 2-1 Monday to back a zoning commission decisions denying a conditional use permit needed to open the ...
Thursday, October 08, 2009 9:04 AM
MARQUETTE, Mich. (AP) -- Soft to the touch, it comes in gray, cream, gold, brown and seven other colors. "This is Shetland wool -- raw fleece, straight from the sheep," said Karen Valley of Winter Sky Wool Co., showing off piles of her organic wool. "Our main thing here is bre ...
Tuesday, October 06, 2009 1:34 PM
WILLIAMS, Ore. -- Full Circle bison meat earned a seal of approval from customers almost as soon as Williams ranchers Tobias and Abigail Hatfield started selling it in 2003. Now the U.S. Department of Agriculture has stamped Full Circle bison meat as certified organic, a status that only ...
Thursday, September 24, 2009 12:19 PM
BASIN CITY, Wash. -- The 300-plus crops the Columbia Basin boasts don't seem enough for irrigation project farmers. To wit, the soybean as a new crop to Franklin County was received with "plenty of interest" by local growers, said Kent Mackay, partner-owner of Eppich Grain in Basin City. ...
Saturday, September 26, 2009 10:04 AM
VIOLA, Idaho -- In a business climate that taxes patience, Debi Robinson-Smith and Dave Smith have made a point of persevering. When the two quit their day jobs to grow organic produce, they picked a newly emerging local farmers' market as their main sales outlet. For a time, progress was as f ...
Sunday, September 20, 2009 12:04 AM
SACRAMENTO -- A bill to help conventional growers switch to organic production has gone to the governor's desk. AB1401, by Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, D-San Francisco, passed the Assembly on a 62-14 vote. The bill would establish the California Transition to Organics Act of 2009. It woul ...
Saturday, September 19, 2009 10:04 AM
RICHARDTON, N.D. (AP) -- Duane and Chantra Boehm, who farm five miles southeast of Richardton, have finished harvesting their oats and winter rye crops and are starting their hard red spring wheat. "It's an average to above-average crop. Nature plays a big part," Duane Boehm sai ...
Monday, September 07, 2009 2:03 PM
Tofu is not an easy sell. Phil Spiegel knows. "Most everybody has heard of it, but they still don't know what to do with it," he said. "Or they've had it and they don't want to try it again." Tofu is the second-most despised food in the United States, behind liver, Spiegel said. ...
Saturday, September 05, 2009 9:04 AM
A new microbial fungicide is showing promise against potato early blight and other plant diseases. The product, called BmJ, is a naturally occurring bacterium that activates plants' defenses. The active ingredient is a microscopic spore derived from the bacterium Bacillus mycoides, isolat ...
Tuesday, September 01, 2009 1:39 PM
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) -- Beef: It's not what's for dinner. At least not for Ellensburg resident Howard Lyman, aka "The Mad Cowboy." Lyman, 70, is a fourth-generation Montana cattle-rancher-turned-hardcore-vegan whose approach to activism -- and food -- is strictly no nonsense. "I don't eat an ...
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