In the second part of her series on preparing and planting your garden, Cathy Isom fills us in about the right time to start on those summer vegetables for your year-round harvest. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Right Time to Plant for Summer Veggies Even though summer is months away, the right time to plant for the …
Starting Your Year Round Garden
Cathy Isom has a few great tips for you about how to get started on your year-round harvest with the seeds and plants you’ll want to sow right now. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Starting Your Year Round Garden By now, many of us have started planning and prepping for Spring and Summer gardens. But why stop …
Top Vegetable Varieties for 2018
Cathy Isom tells us just a bit about the top new veggie varieties of the new year. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Top Vegetable Varieties for 2018 Each year, non-profit All-America Selections picks the top new varieties of vegetables and flowers of the year. And, some great ideas for how to prepare them with tasty recipes from …
Agri View: Urban Farming
Everett Griner talks about urban farming just another way to grow food in today’s Agri View. Urban Farming There is a new term for small vegetable production. At least it is new to me. Urban farming. It is directed at small plots of land within the city. I mean small lots. Less than one-quarter acre. It is a way to …
Agri View: Healthy Eating
Everett Griner talks about healthy eating, something few Americans properly do, in today’s Agri View. Healthy Eating OK, how much fruit and vegetables do you eat eat each day? Not enough? Well, the Center for Disease Control recently did a very new study. Based on what they found out the vast majority of Americans fall way short of the recommended …
Keep Your New Year’s Resolution with Green Juice
Everyone makes a New Year’s Resolution. Cathy Isom helps keep those of us that made one about staying healthy, and on a diet by telling us about a day devoted to getting your greens. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Keep Your New Year’s Resolution with Green Juice January 26th is National Green Juice Day. A food holiday …
Florida Farmers Brace for Cold Weather
Florida farmers were preparing Thursday for continuing cold weather, with temperatures expected to drop into the 30s overnight as far south as Fort Myers and Homestead. Many of Florida’s crops cannot handle freezing temperatures for long periods. Citrus and strawberry farmers are preparing harvests ahead of time, often running irrigation systems to create small layers of ice over the fruit …
USDA Survey Shows Millennials Prefer Fruits, Vegetables
A recent Department of Agriculture report shows that millennials prefer fruits and vegetables over grains and meats. The USDA report analyzed food-buying data by generation. Agri-Pulse reports that millennials spend the smallest share of their food budgets on grains, white meat and red meat. Millennials, those born between 1981 and the mid-2000s, are now the largest, most diverse living generation, …
Expanding U.S. Commodity Markets Top Priority for USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service
64.5 billion pounds of fruit and vegetables, and 44.4 billion eggs graded/inspected domestically The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced the agency facilitated the export of more than $3.8 billion of American produced agricultural products in Fiscal Year 2017 through its Export Verification (EV), grading and classing programs. In a major victory for U.S. beef producers, …
Agroterrorism: American Food Supply a Growing Concern In DC
What’s being done to keep the American food supply safe and allow farmers to continue to produce the food and fiber the nation needs? That was one of several topics discussed during a Senate hearing Wednesday. General Richard Myers, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for President George W. Bush, was asked what currently keeps him up at …