More than 1,000 low-income seniors in Snohomish County can qualify this year for a program that gives them vouchers to buy fresh fruit and vegetables at area farmers markets. They'll be good for $40 worth of fruits and vegetables from participating area farmers at roadside stands and markets. Seniors can get vouchers to use at farmers markets $40 in coupons can help buy fresh fruit and veggies. Seniors may qualify for vouchers they can use to purchase fresh fruit and vegetables at some...

Governor Daisy Avance-Fuentes, PDC chair, said they approved the proposed intensified vegetable seeds production project as part of their continuing efforts to improve the province's agricultural sector. Provincial Agriculturist Reynaldo Legaste said the intensified vegetable seeds production project primarily aims to produce 670 kilos of vegetable seeds such as ampalaya, eggplant, squash, upo, pole sitao, okra, cowpea and patola. She said the vegetable seeds production project will...

Tuesday April 24, 2007 The Guardian As a chef, I've had to do some pretty desperate things - peel whole roomfuls of potatoes; cook for General Pinochet (not at my own restaurant, I hasten to add) - but today's challenge of a Pot Noodle taste-off will take some beating. Tuesday April 24, 2007 The Guardian As a chef, I've had to do some pretty desperate things - peel whole roomfuls of potatoes; cook for General Pinochet (not at my own restaurant, I hasten to add) - but today's challenge of a...

He gets advice from other farmers and help from his family and sells tomatoes, peppers, beans and other vegetables; fruit from a small orchard; and pumpkins in the fall. He produces enough to supply wholesalers and other markets. We are known for our great quality and hope that people who buy our produce will tell their friends about us. Today, just a few years past his high school graduation, farming is Kern's full-time job. I have about 100 acres and hope to increase my sales volume,"...

Whether you hear about it at the farmer's market or read about it on the Internet, organic gardening is having an "it" moment. Oakley said an old saying that "the best fertilizer is farmer's footsteps in the garden" rings true when it comes to pests. Another way to rid your garden of pests without pesticides is by using yellow sticky cards, available at many gardening or home improvement stores. But just because people like Prince Charles of Wales are experts at it (he was in the news this...

Ironically, in 1931 farmers had produced the largest cotton crop in the history of cotton grown in the country -- 95,600 bales of cotton, making Hunt County the fifth largest producer of cotton in the state. Hunt County residents were not immune to the economic cataclysm of the Depression -- businesses closed, farmers went bankrupt, and unemployment increased. Hunt County cotton farmers felt the first impact of the Depression in 1931, when cotton brought 5 cents a pound; three years...