Did you hear about the startup company that’s harvesting moisture from plants? The company is short-staffed, but they’re making dew with the employees they have. Speaking of harvesting, it’s a busy ...
No, not your neighbor’s oranges — there are fruit trees spread across Los Angeles County that anyone can take from. These trees are important because for every piece of food we eat that comes from a ...
On a muggy Wednesday morning, before the sun has burned off the morning’s clouds, Lionel Greenawalt drives across his 100-acre Westmoreland County farm to a field of sweet corn. While Greenawalt and ...
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For those unfamiliar with gleaning, it means collecting leftover crops from fields that are not economically profitable to harvest. Lori Mitchell, the gleaning coordinator of Adams County said the ...
The Old Town Farmers Market is one of the oldest farmers markets, held in the same location since 1753, which is outside of City Hall every Saturday year-round from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. But, since 2014 a ...
In Humboldt County, we are so lucky to live in a place with so many natural resources. And yet, in spite of the bounty of our local farms, one in five people in our county experience food insecurity, ...
Food insecurity in the United States skyrocketed when the COVID-19 pandemic began, leaving emergency food distributors scrambling to provide enough to those in need. To help fill the gap, ...
This time of year, John Mackley starts getting calls like a recent one from Wrightsville. A farmer had green beans, 21 tons of them. A broker had rejected the crop because of superficial black specks ...