Savvy farmers all over the country have discovered a practice that might not work as a nationwide agricultural policy, but that has allowed some economically inefficient orchards to thrive: Encourage yuppies and their progeny to come pick your fruit they'll pay handsomely for the privilege, buy more than they'd ordinarily consume, and then shell out for all sorts of other value-added products. Instead of paying workers to pick their fruit, they should try another strategy: making customers...

usDiggRedditYahooMyWebGoogle What's this? County beekeeping group hoping to recruit dying breed DAINA KLIMANIS The York Dispatch Article Last Updated:03/27/2007 11:47:36 AM EDT The person who just put a couple of beehives in his back yard can turn to any of hundreds of books for guidance on beekeeping. usDiggRedditYahooMyWebGoogle What's this? County beekeeping group hoping to recruit dying breed DAINA KLIMANIS The York Dispatch Article Last Updated:03/27/2007 11:47:36 AM EDT The person...

Expanded competition from overseas, as well as a change in the government's nutrition pyramid in 2005, new concerns about nutrition in the federally funded school meals program and the growing organic foods market have all helped to elevate specialty crops in the agriculture funding debate. They make up a third of the nation's cash crop receipts a full 50 percent of receipts if floriculture and greenhouse plant sales are counted and, until now, they haven't drawn much federal money or...

It can be freedom from excess weight, liberty from disease and degeneration, and justice to those naughty free radicals ravaging our cells as well as the pursuit of delicious apple dishes such as applesauce, apple crisp or hot apple cider. Maybe this is a little excessive, but dont undermine how incredibly healthy apples are for you. According to the research, the skins of red pigmented apples have the highest antioxidant levels, with Gala apples having the highest levels of the...

The extensive publicity and the back-to-back timing of the contaminations could paint a misleading picture, said Jim Rushing, a Clemson University horticulture professor who works to maintain the safety of food from South Carolina's fruit-and-vegetable industry. But Shuler estimates she spent 20 minutes on the organic and health food aisle on a shopping trip this week at Bi-Lo "to see what the organic craze was all about. In the past eight months, consumers have been inundated with...

But did you know you can also buy subscriptions for baskets of produce and, thanks to a growing number of delivery services, get local produce delivered directly to your door? Community supported agriculture is a way for customers to reserve seasonal produce from local farms, usually before the crops are planted. Well, you can, and if your New Year's resolution was to eat more fruits and vegetables, this might be a chance to reinvigorate your plan or just get back on the wagon. Soon you'll...