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GMO Labeling? – Two Farmers Discuss Proposition 37
By J.D. Hillard | KUSP – This week on Talk of the Bay, we talk with two farmers discuss Proposition 37. The initiative would require labeling of foods that are genetically modified. James Cochrane
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If Genetically Modified Apples Don’t Brown, Can You Tell If They’re Rotten?
Soon after being sliced, a conventional Granny Smith apple (left) starts to brown, while a newly developed GM Granny Smith stays fresher looking. Courtesy of Okanagan Specialty Fruits Inc. By HELEN THOMPSON |
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Where Did All The Watermelon Seeds Go?
By APRIL FULTON | The Salt - Many people think of the seedless watermelons popping up at grocery stores and markets everywhere in the last few years as a marvel of modern scientific technology. In
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How The Taste Of Tomatoes Went Bad (And Kept On Going)
NPR’s The Salt | by DAN CHARLES - Notice how some of these tomatoes have unripe-looking tops? Those “green shoulders” are actually the keys to flavor. The tomato is the vegetable (or fruit, if you
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The First Lady Cultivates ‘American Grown’ Gardening
By NPR Staff | One of the first things Michelle Obama did as first lady was to dig up part of the beautifully manicured South Lawn of the White House and plant a vegetable
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How To Grow The Tastiest Tomato? One Secret’s In The Soil
From NPR’s The Salt – by Eliza Barclay It’s tomato time here in the mid-Atlantic – the critical moment when those of us eager to pull fat, bright fruit off our own backyard vines
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Stocking up on Fungus for the Fair
It’s a bright, brisk morning in Santa Cruz: perfect for being outside, perfect for hiking through the woods, perfect, in fact, for almost anything but hunting mushrooms. By Reporter Meghan Rosen. Christian Schwarz is
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