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How to Grow Your Own Tomatoes, Part 6: Saving Seeds
You can practically guarantee you’re growing the tastiest tomatoes – while cutting costs – by saving and storing your own seeds.
Pesticide Gets Pest-Eating Spiders Dangerously Drunk
The pesticide may not kill them, but the effect it has is very strange and possibly harmful in ways not expected.
Inside Kurt Timmermeister’s Seattle Dairy Farm and Home
Seattle chef Kurt Timmermeister wanted little more than a rustic retreat when he bought four neglected acres on nearby Vashon Island. Then a cow named Dinah changed everything.
Food Stamp Spending at Farmers Markets Is up 600% Since 2008
It’s a huge step forward in providing high-quality, healthy food in affordable ways.
Scientists Have Developed a New, Healthier, Tastier Peanut
Longer-lasting, better tasting, healthier peanuts that are also easier to grow. Yum.
Cooking for a Cause: Q&A with Chef Jamie Simpson
Jamie Simpson, executive chef at The Chef’s Garden and The Culinary Vegetable Institute in Huron and Milan, Ohio, talks advocacy, sustainability and the role of restaurateurs.
Meet the Modern Farmers: Maria Farrugia, Orin Hardy and Made Gojing
With start-up capital, Orin Hardy leased two acres in Bali, which supply The Green School with papayas, basil, coconuts, and Thai eggplant.
(Beer) Waste Not, Want Not: 5 Ways Breweries Recycle Their Waste
Beer makers have always been innovators, so it makes sense they would be involved in great ways to use the waste from the brewing process.
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