Roy remembers when every farm had orchards and apples were shipped everywhere, but she said that it got so expensive that everyone started to raise chickens and pigs. LINCOLN -- Despite a rainy day, Lincoln residents celebrated the 100th anniversary of the town's incorporation on Saturday with a car show, children's entertainment, fireworks and music. Residents got together in the Community Building on the town square to admire a display of historical photos, memorabilia and various...

A Fair Trade premium is invested by Kuapa Kokoo into schools, clean drinking water, mobile medical clinics, and women's entrepreneurship projects for the significant percentage of women cocoa farmers that are Kuapa Kokoo members (60% of the national executive board of Kuapa Kokoo are women) A Fair Trade premium is invested by Kuapa Kokoo into schools, clean drinking water, mobile medical clinics, and women's entrepreneurship projects for the significant percentage of women cocoa farmers...

At the end of a dusty drive on Talbott Farms sits a small house where Lamb stays with her son while Hodges busies himself as a handy man during the day doing a variety of odd jobs around the orchards. It s enough room for two tiny bedrooms, a small bath, a walk-in kitchen and a sitting area furnished with a love seat and a radio that barely qualifies as a living room. It would also employ seasonal workers that lived on other farms when the workers main employers didn t need them for the...

Though the approaching winter chill has zapped the last of the orchards' fruit, you can still find the sweet, crisp taste of apples throughout the cold months. Here are five of places to partake in an Irish meal, plus one bonus item, because we think you should feel lucky on this greenest of holidays. Whether you're an actual vegetarian or aspiring to be a herbivore, dieting or abstaining for Lent, we offer you five places to fill up on flavorful salads. So to satisfy your cajun and creole...

While its impossible to generate the return-on-investment of a gnome, having consumers actively purchase a constant reminder of its brand has helped Travelocity.com separate itself from a pack of online travel sites. Both companies, while pleased with the incremental sales of these tchotchkes, are absolutely elated by the fact that their brand icons have gained cultural currency a marketer's dream. The novelty items, born out of a Staples ad campaign and available at its stores for $5,...

If you are already a Business First subscriber please create or sign into your bizjournals.com account to link your valid print subscription and have access to the complete article. Today, growers are bracing for a new Chinese threat - fresh apples. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of bizjournals. market in the 1990s and now China is the source of much of America's apple juice....

All of those natural ingredients and others go into the type of high-quality artisan breads that Eliades served up with fresh coffee at 5 on a recent Tuesday morning. That's where you will find the star of the entire establishment: a lump of sourdough starter (levain) that Bread Craft owner Alex Eliades lovingly feeds with flour and water daily. The massive, yawning Bongard oven is as impressive to a food lover as the golden loaves of bread that beckon from a stainless-steel rack. One...

Early mornings in Calistoga are cool and quiet, unless the neighbor's dog is barking, or a squirrel scolds the stray cat who nibbles from a pile of free food placed by local guardians of the feline species. About 25 vendors appear weekly, hawking everything from cut flowers and fruits from Winters and Napa to tie-died shirts and (soon) salmon, massages, baked Salvadorean delicacies known as pupusas and even expert handwriting analysis. During the regular school year, however, the students...