Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center, located in National City, California – is set in a unique and historical neighborhood of classically vintage homes within an urban low-income city. But wait; here is where the allure begins. On an enlightening tour given by Executive Director, Healy Vigderson, one can appreciate the 100 year + history of those More Info »
Pure, fresh food increases a sense of pleasure and well-being. Enzymes and proteins from food are one thing that no human can do without. They are essential to an active, purposeful daily life. Food, vital food, is a comfort that nothing can replace. In modern times, unfortunately, many people struggle with food uncertainty and corruption. More Info »
The devastating disease Huonglongbing, or citrus greening, looms darkly over the United States, threatening to wipe out the nation’s citrus industry, whose fresh fruit alone was valued at more than $3.4 billion in 2012. Recently, however, a research team led by a University of California, Davis, plant scientist used DNA sequencing technologies to paint More Info »
A new report from the US Department of Agriculture shows that 2% of America’s agricultural land was foreignly owned in 2011. This percentage rose steadily over the previous decade and is twice the amount recorded in 2000. Only 19% percent of this “agricultural land” was actually used to grow crops. The rest is either timbered More Info »
On Saturday, Sept 7, someone from Blythe took her kids on what was to have been a fishing expedition. The trip was aborted after they found the dead fish that you see in the photo above in in a canal off 26th, in the Palo Verde Valley. She would later tell me that the smell More Info »
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We’ve been talking about GMO and how in the future we may not know if the food we buy in the store is modified or not. And there’s even a contingency of folks that are now writing articles about our ‘over reaction’ to GMO. So who knows the way it’s going to go! We use More Info »
Tasting farm-fresh vegetables and fruit compared to produce delivered from the industrial food system is comparable to viewing television in high definition versus standard—the taste is so much more vibrant. I had the pleasure of meeting with some of the key players behind a local produce treasure, Specialty Produce in San Diego, which included Kellie More Info »
There is an unprecedented human drama unfolding in Africa that should stop every one of us in our tracks. It is a vision into humanity’s future, where we are heading and how we will exist throughout the remainder of this century. This is about choices, by all of us and where those decisions will lead More Info »
A potentially “world-changing” technology has been developed by researchers at the University of Nottingham — a means of enabling any type of crop to take nitrogen from the air. In other words, an effective means of phasing out expensive and environmentally damaging nitrogen fertilizers. As it stands now, most crops are dependent upon nitrogen fertilizers, More Info »