They also are goldmines for thieves who are using rigged-up devices to siphon off the fuel and sell it at cut-rate prices to truckers or keep it for their own vehicles. Irrigation-pump fuel thefts hurting farmers as prices rise: South Florida Sun-Sentinel. At least 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel is pilfered every year from dozens of small, privately operated irrigation stations that control water flows to more than 535,000 acres of agricultural land in the county's western reaches, according...

The market will again be providing a location for fruit and vegetable growers, artisans, craft makers and plant growers to sell their home produced goods directly to the public. Although most fruits and vegetables will not be in season this time of the year, many of our growers will have vegetable plants and other bedding plants for sale on the opening Saturday of the market. The Open Air Market is located at Main Street and Washington Street (across from First Baptist Church) and is a...

Kids can learn what 'growing like a weed' really means Every parent knows kids love dirt, so why not add to their enjoyment with a little gardening? Family Fun magazine offers the following fun gardening tips: * Grow veggies from veggies. Spark a passion for gardening and appeal to your children's entrepreneurial spirit by offering to pay for vegetables they grow. How do you get your kids to "weed" when they might not know what a weed is? Give each child one variety of weed and ask them to...

As entertainment goes its pretty tough to beat watching kids bury their faces into slices of pumpkin pie with their hands behind their back, trying to spit pumpkin seeds, rolling pumpkins or any of the Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn type of games that are all free. Archives: Story Pie eating & seed spitting. The reason for biting into a pie goes beyond just a desire to publicize next weekends pumpkin bash. The Kids Zone sometimes gets lost in the hustle and bustle of 150 plus vendors, food...

Every time I go to the grocery store, I struggle with the old menus and end up buying the same old fruit apples, bananas, oranges, pears, grapefruit, raisins, and grapes. We've tried cooking and raw, and aside from the carrots and dip, the kids will leave most raw vegetables in the bowl. I usually add canned pineapple, peaches and mandarin oranges as a breakfast treat and jarred applesauce to serve at lunch a few times a week. Vegetables aren't necessarily sweet, but they are a fun thing...

Oklahoma ranks dead last in the percentage of adults who report eating five or more servings of fruits and vegetables, as federal guidelines recommend, annual telephone surveys from the Oklahoma Department of Health show. Experts say perceived cost, availability, advertising and cultural mores all play a role in the state's dubious place in eating an insufficient amount of leafy and tropical foods. Considering the Legislature has decreed the Oklahoma state meal includes fried okra,...

Although these dramatic improvements are most welcome, they have changed the way we grow the vegetable in our own gardens. Perhaps no vegetable in the recent past has undergone so many changes with so much improvement to the taste. Growing the Supersweets (Sh2) is different than growing the other varieties because their pollen is weak and easily replaced by other types. Fresh ears direct from the corn patch are so much tastier and so much more appealing than corn prepared and served in any...

In the newly adopted ICT system, the rice growers might directly get in touch with the buyers, vegetable growers would produce designer vegetables according to the demand and craftsmen may not have to share a chunk of their profit with the middlemen. Informed sources in the IMIS said, most of the population in the state is involved in occupations relating to agriculture, fisheries, mining and handicrafts. The two-day workshop would primarily focus on how best to rope in the growing small...

There is nothing like a trip down memory lane to tug at the old heart strings and bring on the waves of nostalgia! We had lived in Chisamba in the early eighties, had our first two children there and despite the odd dose of dreadfully annoying morning sickness (mine), been happy as pigs! (there are some happy pigs around, we kept a very happy Fringilla pig as a pet for ages) There is nothing like a trip down memory lane to tug at the old heart strings and bring on the waves of nostalgia!...