Posts Tagged 'farming'
Protecting Endangered Vegetables [video]
Published April 24, 2019 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: agriculture, cooking, Dr. Prabhakar Rao, farming, food, gourmet, heirloom, India, industrial farming, seed bank, vegetables
Raising Wasabi [video]
Published March 27, 2019 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: agriculture, cooking, farming, food, gourmet, Japan, Shigeo Iida, Wasabi, Wasabia Japonica
Is Our Food Becoming Less Nutritious? [video]
Published August 30, 2018 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: carbon dioxide, climate change, cooking, farming, food, greenhouse gases, nutrition, video, wildflowers
Surprising Plant Helps Kenyan Farmers Prosper [video]
Published December 19, 2017 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: agriculture, Alex Odundo, farming, fiber, hemp, Kenya, Kisumu, rope, sisal, Sisal Dicorticator, video
Peru’s King of Potatoes [video]
Published September 14, 2017 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: agriculture, Andes, Cusco, farming, heirloom potatoes, Julio Hancco Mamani, Pampa Corral, Peru, Potato King, video
Real Wasabi [video]
Published October 10, 2016 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: agriculture, Daio Wasabi Farm, farming, food, gastronomy, gourmet, Hokata, horseradish, Japan, video
The Tree Of 40 Fruits [video]
Published July 30, 2015 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: agriculture, chip grafting, farming, fruit tree, gardening, grafting, horticulture, Sam Van Aken, Syracuse University, video
Hurry! There’s Still Time To Get Tickets For 2014 North American Manure Expo
Published June 19, 2014 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: agriculture, BS, bullshit, conservative politics, excrement, farming, manure, Missouri, North American Manure Expo, poop, Republican, Springfield
Springfield, Missouri is the place to be on July 8 & 9, 2014! Don’t miss this year’s North American Manure Expo.
We know your time is valuable. But so is every gallon and pound of manure being applied to your fields. You can’t afford to miss the 2014 North American Manure Expo, the only trade show on the continent to focus specifically on manure management and application issues. It would be a real waste to your wallet.
How To Keep Your Cows Showroom New [video]
Published September 6, 2013 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: animal husbandry, animals, back scratcher, brush, car wash, carwash, cattle, cow wash, cows, dairy farm, farming, funny, humor, video
Where Do Baby Carrots Come From?
Published April 10, 2011 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: agriculture, Baby Carrots, beta carotene, farming, food science, food technology, healthy, Mike Yurosek
Don’t send the kids out of the room just yet. This isn’t a story about the birds and the bees, but one about Mike Yurosek and his lumpy veggies. Like other plants and animals, not every carrot gets the good genes and a nice environment and turns out perfect. Some of them get pulled up from the ground lumpy, twisted and just plain ugly. Farmers know that even if an ugly carrot tastes better than any other carrot that ever existed, it won’t sell simply because it looks weird. Every year Yurosek, a California farmer, culled and threw away tons of vegetables too ugly for supermarket shelves. In some harvests, 70 percent of his carrots were tossed. Most culled vegetables wind up getting fed to farm animals, but pigs and cows can only handle so many carrots. After a while, their fat turns orange, and meat is about as useful at the market as a lumpy carrot. In 1986, Yurosek came up with a solution to his ugly carrot problem. He would cut the carrots into smaller, sleeker, better looking forms, like a plastic surgeon for vegetables. He took the culled carrots and cut off any lumps and twisted parts. He was left with a perfect-looking mini-carrot just a few inches long, which he then peeled. The first experiment in baby carrot-making was done by hand with a potato peeler and a paring knife. After a few batches, Yurosek was thankful to find a used industrial green bean cutter — a frozen food company had gone out of business and posted an ad — that could cut the carrots into uniform 2-inch pieces. To finish the job, he just had to take the cut-up carrots to a packing plant and throw them into an industrial potato peeler. Yurosek sent some samples of his little carrots along with the regular load to one of his best customers, the Vons supermarket Los Angeles. The produce manager and the customers loved them; Yurosek has said the store called him the next day to say they wanted only the baby carrots in the next shipment. Within a few years, more supermarkets started carrying Yurosek’s little carrots and the world of produce changed forever.
Monday is National Pig Day – Time to Celebrate
Published February 24, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: animal husbandry, farming, holiday, National Bacon Day, National Pig Day, pork, wtf
It’s almost that time again. Monday, March 1 is National Pig Day. If you haven’t got all of you shopping done, you may be too late. Bear in mind that National Bacon Day isn’t until September 5.