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Market Watch: Cuyama, the perfect hideaway for Pink Lady apples
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Cuyama Valley is just 30 miles northeast of Santa Barbara and two hours from downtown Los Angeles, but it's a world of its own, rimmed by stark, rugged mountains, sparsely populated and little known. At the extreme southern end of the valley, the...Tags: Whole Foods Market, Forestry and Timber
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The future of Gravenstein apples hangs on a thin stem
Special to the Los Angeles TimesWith thick, hollow trunks and lichen-draped limbs propped up on crutches, the century-old Gravenstein trees at Walker Apples look less like a working orchard than an arboreal infirmary, or the rear guard of a retreating army. The 20 square miles of...Tags: Grapes, Genes and Chromosomes, Pies and Tarts, Apples
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In author Betty MacDonald's footsteps
The Betty MacDonald Farm is still everything its first owner described in her memoir "Onions in the Stew": a beautiful retreat with a breathtaking view of Puget Sound, lush fruit trees and bald eagles nesting just outside the windows.
The farm in the...Tags: Television, Onions, Entertainment, Claudette Colbert, Livestock Farming
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Market Watch: A new tack in farmers market regulation
Special to the Los Angeles TimesA plan earlier this year to ensure the integrity of farmers markets went nowhere, but now the California Department of Food and Agriculture is forming an advisory group to consider a variety of topics related to the direct marketing of fruits and...Tags: Agricultural Research and Technology, Restaurants, Jerry Brown, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior (tv program), Agriculture
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Market Watch: Exotic melons a sweet success in high desert
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThirteen years ago, when Ruben Mkrtchyan told his wife and four children that they were going to move from Glendale to a high desert valley in the middle of nowhere to grow the world's tastiest melons, they thought he had lost his mind. "My mom and I...Tags: Uzbekistan, Realty, Diseases and Illnesses, Real Estate, Health
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Market Watch: The sweet smell of Mara des Bois strawberries
Walking through the Santa Monica farmers market early one recent morning, I noticed Sherry Yard, executive pastry chef of Spago, carrying a flat of strawberries that looked oddly different than any I had seen there before. Even from 10 feet away, they...Tags: Genes and Chromosomes, France, Tony Bennett, Strawberries
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Fate of disputed South L.A. farm site up to City Council
L.A. NOWA plan to strip a promised park from land once used by the South Central Farm took a step forward Monday when a Los Angeles City Council committee voted 4 to 0 to send the proposal to the full council....... -
Pass the drumstick -- and wallet; Thanksgiving meals to cost more
Nation NowPrepare for a 13% increase in the cost of the traditional Thanksgiving dinner, the biggest increase in the 26 years of the American Farm Bureau Federation’s informal price survey.... -
Farmers markets double, local food sales to hit $7 billion, USDA says
Money & CompanyLocal food sales reached $4.8 billion in 2008, according to USDA report... -
Japan may ban sales of tainted rice from stricken-reactor area
World NowJapan's central government warned Thursday that it might soon ban shipments of contaminated rice from a farm area affected by the March accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. A test Wednesday detected excessive levels of the poisonous... -
Market Watch by David Karp: The sweet smell of Mara des Bois strawberries
Daily DishWalking through the Santa Monica farmers market early one recent morning, I noticed Sherry Yard, executive pastry chef of Spago, carrying a flat of strawberries that looked oddly different than any I had seen there before. Even from 10 feet...... -
Pesticide-laden produce: Apples and celery top the list
GreenspaceThey may be red and shiny, but apples are the most pesticide-laden fruit, according to the "2011 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce" released Monday by the Washington-based Environmental Working Group. Of 700 apple samples tested by the U.S....
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