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    Nov 9, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Farmers Markets: The Produce Project repackages the bounty

    While farmers markets have proliferated in recent years, demand for fresh, local, seasonal produce has increased even faster. Several types of entrepreneurs have arisen to satisfy this demand, including specialty produce distributors, shopping services and stores that emulate the farmers market experience, such as <a href="http://atwatervillagefarm.com/">Atwater Village Farm</a>. One intriguing variation is <a href="http://www.theproduceproject.com/">the Produce Project,</a> which buys from farmers markets and sells at "pop-up farm stands" in downtown L.A. and Mid-City.
    While farmers markets have proliferated in recent years, demand for fresh, local, seasonal produce has increased even faster. Several types of entrepreneurs have arisen to satisfy this demand, including specialty produce distributors, shopping services...

    Tags: Restaurants, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Dining and Drinking, Apples, Marketing

    2. Oct 20, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Farmers Markets: Santa Barbara Pistachio Co.'s green nuts popping up

    VENTUCOPA, Calif. &mdash; Pistachios are available from storage year-round, but for the next week or so, ultra-seasonal green nuts, freshly harvested and still encased in their hulls, will appear at farmers markets. Moister, softer and sweeter than regular pistachios, they have their own flavor that hints at citrus and eucalyptus. They are sold by <a href="http://santabarbarapistachios.com/">Santa Barbara Pistachio Co.</a>, owned by the Zannon family, who started last Sunday to harvest 400 acres in the remote, pristine Cuyama Valley, midway between Santa Barbara and Bakersfield.
    VENTUCOPA, Calif. — Pistachios are available from storage year-round, but for the next week or so, ultra-seasonal green nuts, freshly harvested and still encased in their hulls, will appear at farmers markets. Moister, softer and sweeter than...

    Tags: Pistachios, Iran

    3. Oct 5, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Farmers Markets: Almonds at the stands

    WASCO, Calif. &mdash; California's almond harvest, which takes place from August through October, is a dusty, noisy affair, vast in scale and fascinating in its blend of agricultural and industrial processes. Sixty years ago California grew 100,000 acres of almonds, 85% of them in the northern Central Valley, from Madera to Butte counties. Mechanization, increased irrigation in the southern San Joaquin Valley (at least until recent water cutbacks) and booming exports have boosted production, and California now raises some 760,000 acres of almonds, its third largest farm commodity, after dairy and grapes. Two of the top three almond counties are Kern and Fresno, where endless vistas of almonds line the highways.
    WASCO, Calif. — California's almond harvest, which takes place from August through October, is a dusty, noisy affair, vast in scale and fascinating in its blend of agricultural and industrial processes. Sixty years ago California grew 100,000...

    Tags: Consumers, Siemens

    4. Oct 12, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Farmers Markets: Raisins, outside the box

    REEDLEY, Calif. -- Raisins are the neglected icon of California agriculture, perceived as an old-fashioned industrial commodity, devoid of seasonal sizzle. At farmers markets, however, it's well worth searching out special varieties, freshly harvested and processed by small growers.
    REEDLEY, Calif. -- Raisins are the neglected icon of California agriculture, perceived as an old-fashioned industrial commodity, devoid of seasonal sizzle. At farmers markets, however, it's well worth searching out special varieties, freshly harvested and...

    Tags: Grapes, Muscat (Oman), U.S. Department of Agriculture, Heart Attack

    5. Sep 29, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Farmers Markets: Damson plums worth preserving

    With dark blue, astringent skins, and dry, sour flesh, the ancient plums called damsons aren't good for eating fresh. When submitted to a process akin to alchemy, however, their tartness and spiciness are ideal for making preserves. Cooked down, the damson's astringency disappears, and its tannic skin imparts a gorgeous magenta color and rich, spicy flavor, while its abundant pectin confers a lusciously thick and smooth consistency.
    With dark blue, astringent skins, and dry, sour flesh, the ancient plums called damsons aren't good for eating fresh. When submitted to a process akin to alchemy, however, their tartness and spiciness are ideal for making preserves. Cooked down, the...

    Tags: World War II (1939-1945)

    6. Sep 7, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Market News: Palms launches first farmers market

    As farmers markets have proliferated in the past decade, many communities now consider a local venue to be an essential amenity, for social as well as culinary purposes. Such was the feeling in Palms, where the <a href="http://www.motorassociation.org/">Motor Avenue Improvement Assn.</a>, comprised of business owners and residents, opened a market last Sunday. It's managed by Diana Ionescu, a UCLA graduate student in urban and Latin American studies, who received advice from <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/06/food/la-fo-marketwatch-online-20120406">Pompea Smith</a>, former director of the Hollywood market. Ionescu recruited 20 vendors, evenly split between farmers and prepared foods, and of better than average quality for a new market.
    As farmers markets have proliferated in the past decade, many communities now consider a local venue to be an essential amenity, for social as well as culinary purposes. Such was the feeling in Palms, where the Motor Avenue Improvement Assn., comprised of...

    Tags: Barbara Lee, University of California, Los Angeles, Apples, Mushrooms, Bill Lewis

    7. Aug 31, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Blum Ranch in Acton keeps it old school

    For a vision from a century ago, when farms covered Los Angeles County, there's no better time machine than <a href="http://www.blumranch.com/,">Blum Ranch</a> in Acton, southwest of Palmdale. Just off the 14 freeway, about an hour north of downtown, its 40 acres of peach and pear orchards are the largest deciduous fruit planting so close to the city. The century-old stone house, the streamlined 1940 tractor, the ancient, creaky trees and the fruit they produce are as defiantly old school as the owners, Ray and Elizabeth Billet.
    For a vision from a century ago, when farms covered Los Angeles County, there's no better time machine than Blum Ranch in Acton, southwest of Palmdale. Just off the 14 freeway, about an hour north of downtown, its 40 acres of peach and pear orchards are...

    Tags: Pears, Flying Disc, Sports, Peaches, Productivity

    8. Aug 24, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Beverly Glen farmers market makes a comeback

    The Beverly Glen farmers market, which had a soft opening last Saturday at the Glen Centre shopping mall just south of Mulholland Drive, revives an event that debuted 11 years ago. That version folded due to a lack of parking, but the reincarnation offers a new lot and free valet service. The sponsor remains <a href="http://www.rawinspiration.org/,">Raw Inspiration</a> a nonprofit that has in the interim grown from 5 to 21 farmers markets in the Los Angeles area, run through an operating affiliate, <a href="http://www.ccfm.com/">California Certified Farmers Markets</a>. The Beverly Glen market has 40 stands, 16 of them farmers, with a mix of large and small growers, including veterans and novices.
    The Beverly Glen farmers market, which had a soft opening last Saturday at the Glen Centre shopping mall just south of Mulholland Drive, revives an event that debuted 11 years ago. That version folded due to a lack of parking, but the reincarnation offers...

    Tags: Pears, Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Mexico, Marketing

    9. Aug 17, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. New beef vendor at Santa Monica farmers market has history on its side

    LOMPOC, Calif. &mdash; A new beef vendor at the Santa Monica farmers market, <a href="http://ranchosanjulian.com/,">Rancho San Julian</a> is very likely the oldest continuously operated family farm in California, dating to 1816, when Jos&eacute; de la Guerra began to raise meat for the presidio at Santa Barbara. In 1837, the governor of Alta California granted him title to the ranch, which has remained in his family for nine generations. It currently extends over 13,000 acres of grasslands and oak forest, roamed by cougars, bears and hawks, and home to 500 Angus cows and their calves. All the cattle are born and raised on the ranch, fed chiefly on its dry-farmed grass, and not given corn, hormones or antibiotics.
    LOMPOC, Calif. — A new beef vendor at the Santa Monica farmers market, Rancho San Julian is very likely the oldest continuously operated family farm in California, dating to 1816, when José de la Guerra began to raise meat for the presidio at...

    Tags: Michelin Group, Consumer Goods Industries, U.S. Department of Agriculture

    10. Aug 10, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. From Ojai, crops of Gala apples and Howard Miracle plums

    Most California apples are grown either well north of Los Angeles, in mountains, or near the coast, where cool winters and nights boost production and quality. Ojai, atrociously hot in summer, is better known for its citrus, but in some of its valleys where cold air pools, the microclimate is surprisingly suitable for apples, which were grown there on a modest scale in decades past. The possibility was clear on Monday when Cecilio Marquez and his crew harvested Galas from an 8-acre orchard, leased from a couple who bought the property from Otis Chandler, publisher of The Times from 1960 to 1980.
    Most California apples are grown either well north of Los Angeles, in mountains, or near the coast, where cool winters and nights boost production and quality. Ojai, atrociously hot in summer, is better known for its citrus, but in some of its valleys...

    Tags: Genes and Chromosomes, Apples, Livestock Farming, Otis Chandler

    11. Jun 30, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Market Watch: Plum-cherry hybrids find a sweet spot

    HANFORD, Calif. &mdash; Combining the high sugar and flavor of cherries with the larger fruit size and extended season of plums has been a longstanding dream for fruit breeders, but such crosses are difficult to make successfully so that the hybrids yield abundant high-quality fruit. <a href="http://www.davewilson.com/z_file/zaiger_intro.html">Zaiger's Genetics</a> of Modesto, the inventors of Pluots and Apriums, managed the trick, and the fruit started showing up several years ago in <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dailydish/2009/06/of-pluots-apriums-and-cherubs-.html">very small quantities at upstate farmers markets;</a> this year vendors at local farmers markets have begun offering plum-cherry hybrids, and the first commercial orchard has started bearing fruit.
    Special to the Los Angeles Times
    HANFORD, Calif. — Combining the high sugar and flavor of cherries with the larger fruit size and extended season of plums has been a longstanding dream for fruit breeders, but such crosses are difficult to make successfully so that the hybrids yield...

    Tags: Forestry and Timber, Environmental Issues, Whole Foods Market, Genes and Chromosomes, Cherries

    12. Jun 13, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Review: 'The Good Food Revolution' details a black farmer's journey

    Like his mother and like his daughter, Will Allen meant to escape the life of a farmer, only to learn he never really could &mdash; nor did he really want to.
    Like his mother and like his daughter, Will Allen meant to escape the life of a farmer, only to learn he never really could — nor did he really want to. The son of a sharecropper, the 60-year-old Allen has become an icon of the urban agriculture...

    Tags: College Sports, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Will D. Allen , Sports, Family

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