Veggie producers eye Australia Published : 2007-06-22 Mindanao vegetable producers are encouraged to look for other foreign markets like Australia which is experiencing shortage of vegetables due to drought. He said farmers must go for good agricultural practices (GAP) for them to be able to comply with foreign market standards. GAP on vegetables focuses on the judicious use of agro-chemicals among growers, on workers health and safety practices, and on appropriate harvest and post-harvest...

June 4, 2007 In an exciting vegetable crop breakthrough, researchers have unearthed the genetic secret behind the bright orange cauliflower. The gene enables the cauliflower to build up higher stores of beta-carotene, the precursor to vitamin A that gives carrots their distinctive hue. If you don't want to read about orange cauliflowers at all but wouldn't mind taking a look at one, go here: http://www.news. If you want to read more about orange cauliflowers, go to http://www.news. If you...

The changes will mean that fruit and vegetable co-operatives will have simplified regulations with the aim to encourage new producers into the industry. Peter Kendall, NFU President said The EU reform of the change means that the administrative nightmare for fruit, vegetable and potato growers will be consigned to history. There will be reduced administration and growers given more certainty over their future rental arrangements. Join over 70,000 readers and stay up-to-date with whats...

In it, each recipe is coded using chef's hats -- one hat indicates the easiest level (fewest cooking skills), two hats means some cutting skills are required, and three-hat recipes are for children who know their way around the kitchen. With a sharp knife, cut off cauliflower florets into bite-sized pieces and place them in a large mixing bowl. Cauliflower recipe is a kids' hat trick. When it is done, remove the cauliflower from the oven and serve. Discard the hard center of the...

Volunteers chosen for the Master Gardener program receive 30 hours of initial training in consumer horticulture and must commit to 50 hours of volunteer service in the first year after training, and 20 hours per year thereafter to remain certified and active as Master Gardener volunteers. Volunteers chosen for the Master Gardener program receive 30 hours of initial training in consumer horticulture and must commit to 50 hours of volunteer service in the first year after training, and 20...

Some 30 years ago, a Canadian farmer discovered small orange cauliflower growing in his white cauliflower field. The orange cauliflower has at least 25 times more beta-carotene than white cauliflower, and more than many staple crops. The farmer's curiosity led to decades of cross breeding which finally brought a larger, tastier version of the orange cauliflower to supermarkets. Now, researchers at Cornell University have discovered the genetic mutation that gives the cauliflower its orange...

Garden designer Carol Gallagher McCulloch has spent the past four years transforming gardens for her clients and this month undertook the rare feat of creating two gardens simultaneously at Gardening Scotland 2007 at the Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston: the Garden of the Future for Scottish Water and a Snakes and Ladders garden for Stewartsturf. However, loading the trolley with all manner of green goodies at the garden centre is the easy part; taking them home and arranging them...

Bakker said there will also most likely be some growers who end up with about 60 percent of the crop. Todd Greiner Farm, a large fresh packer for about 28 different asparagus growers near Hart, felt the affects of the labor shortage and the weather this year. He said all of the profitability is lost for growers who do not harvest at least 80 percent of their crop. But not all of the asparagus growers had a rough season, Michael Chase, owner of Chase farms, which packages asparagus for...

But whether the food is given away or is put right on the grower's table for consumption, the community garden provides an unquestionable kinship. While popular in city and urban settings as a departure from the concrete jungle, the community gardens in Central Jersey suburbia are rooted in giving. It has been said that the best fertilizer is a gardener's shadow. Some of those in the community garden also have volunteered to help in the giving garden, which is free to join. Most of these...