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Growing vegetables in the winter

By Liz Clayton April 15, 2012

For seven winters, Carol Ford and Chuck Waibel have been supplying weekly boxes of fresh cold-weather vegetables and baby greens to a 12-member CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). Under the name “Garden Goddess,” they grow the food in their self-designed 16×22 low-energy northern greenhouse. Inside that deceptively small space is 3,520 cubic feet, with roughly 150

Crops, News

Healthier diet, less health-care spending

By Alex Binkley March 23, 2012

With a dose of government co-operation, Canada’s fruit and vegetable growers believe they can help cure the country’s health-care spending epidemic. Horticulture for Health, or Hort4Health as it likes to bill itself, is a working group of farmers, retailers, food processors and input suppliers that sprouted out of Agriculture Canada’s horticulture value chain roundtable. The

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Industry official fights the image of potatoes as fattening

By Gord Gilmour March 14, 2012

There’s no denying the impact of the image. A morbidly obese woman struggles up a short flight of stairs, while in the forefront of the advertisement are three servings of french fries, growing from modest to mammoth. “Portion sizes have grown, and so has obesity, which leads to many health problems,” reads the headline of

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New Vegetable-Processing Plant Putting Down Roots In Portage

By Shannon VanRaes November 10, 2011

Kelly Beaulieu is cultivating more than freshness these days the former agronomist is growing opportunities and sowing the seeds of success in her hometown of Portage la Prairie. The entrepreneur has spent the last year creating Prairie Garden Puree at the Manitoba Food Development Centre, a base ingredient for food production. This is something that

News

Food-Ware Fashion Expands Into Vegetables

November 3, 2011

mumbai/reuters/sta ff/ Indian animal rights activists asked pop star Lady Gaga to pose in a lettuce dress and embrace vegetarianism during a recent visit to India to be part of the star-studded unveiling of the country s first Formula 1 race. Lady Gaga, who famously wore a meat dress at the 2010 MTV Video Music

Country Crossroads

Produce Can Cause Foodborne Illness

By Julie Garden-Robinson November 18, 2010

When I teach food safety classes, I often ask my students which foods they associate with particular foodborne illnesses. They usually associate chicken or eggs with salmonella. But what about produce? Salmonella infections can cause fever, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. For young children, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems, the illness

Country Crossroads

Kohlrabi Is Loaded With Nutrition

By Albert Parsons November 4, 2010

Kohlrabi is a nutritional powerhouse. Not only is it high in dietary fibre, but it is packed with vitamins and minerals. High in vitamins C, E and A, it also has significant amounts of various B vitamins, as well as vitamin K. As if that were not enough, kohlrabi also contains folate as well as

Country Crossroads, Pulses

Try Something New Next Year

By Lillian Deedman October 7, 2010

Growing new and different vegetables in the garden is not only a challenging hobby, but also helps to add interest and appreciation for meals. This year I had selected several to try. Caraflex Cabbage from Veseys Seeds caught my eye with its atypical shape ending in a high point, similar to the popular shape of

Country Crossroads, Pulses

Edible Pod Peas — A Midsummer Treat – for Jul. 29, 2010

By Albert Parsons July 29, 2010

Other than the salad plants such as lettuce, radish, onions and spinach, the first “main crop” vegetables that we harvest from our vegetable patch are the edible pod peas. What a treat to be able to pick these delectable treats from the vine and simply pop them into our mouths – they could certainly be

Country Crossroads

Fun Ideas For “Crazy” Container Plantings

By Botanical Interest June 17, 2010

NATIONAL GARDEN BUREAU Hanging basket – Cherry tomatoes. Vines will hang down over the sides. Large sweater boxes – Great for a hodgepodge of lettuce or mesclun. Old buckets – One tomato or pepper plant. Sow cilantro around it. Whiskey barrels – One winter squash plant. An old boot – One Swiss chard plant. A

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Tag Archives Vegetable

Growing vegetables in the winter

Healthier diet, less health-care spending

Industry official fights the image of potatoes as fattening

New Vegetable-Processing Plant Putting Down Roots In Portage

Food-Ware Fashion Expands Into Vegetables

Produce Can Cause Foodborne Illness

Kohlrabi Is Loaded With Nutrition

Try Something New Next Year

Edible Pod Peas — A Midsummer Treat – for Jul. 29, 2010

Fun Ideas For “Crazy” Container Plantings

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