. However certain stink bugs are beneficial such as Podisus nigrispinus (Dallas) a predatory stink bug that is considered an important biological control agent for various insect pests of cotton soybean tomato
corn kale and other crops. Now a new study appearing in Annals of the Entomological Society of America called Effect of Egg Rearing Temperature and Storage Time on the Biological Characteristics of the Predatory Stink Bug Podisus
and consumption habits of each property which were otherwise indistinguishable hospitality businesses says Ellis. Findings revealed foods that would have been inexpensive and widely available such as grains fruits nuts olives lentils local
and that's true love and homegrown tomatoes.##5: Learn some basic skills. If you're growing some food,
So I steer away from those subjects (except where a very rational and unemotional exchange of ideas is possible and fruitful) and just discuss tomatoes and worms with them.
The first thing that made people really angry was that the government raised the acceptable exposure levels on vegetables 20 times
and contaminated vegetables were going into school lunches. They were also really angry that the Japanese government covered up the fact that they knew how high radiation levels were in places like Tokyo.
There was a lot of talk about which vegetables were okay to eat from which prefecture, and many people were buying imported bottled water to drink.
and vegetables grown on site. Completing this holistic system, food harvested from the Urban Food Jungle can be used to supply local restaurants.
and trucks that haul mountains of agribusiness cabbages and cucumbers and whatnot around the country trounce local vans in ton-miles per gallon-the jargon of freight fuel efficiency.
Whole Foods store will grow veggies on its rooftop farm Rooftop farms budding in Beijing, Hong kong London's answer to NY's High Line-a subterranean low line for mushrooms,
because carrots harness human desire and ingenuity, while sticks merely arouse resistance. Further, it makes no sense to simply clamp down on fossil-fuel emissions without replacing the displaced energy.
a company that makes kombucha tea, an artisanal bakery, a mushroom farm, and two aquaponics companies--Skyygreens Aquaponics (which will run the vertical farm) and 312 Aquaponics
he always offers a carrot, which is the opportunity to work with him to develop best practices,
Maybe mobile technology will stop us from becoming couch potatoes and encourage us to get up from our desks once in a while.
as well as local beefsteak tomatoes, until that ephemeral sweetness has faded. I don't know how much of that corn is grown organically here in the chemical-happy Garden state,
which started collecting sustainability information for peas come 1997. The article quotes David Pendlinton, Unilever's sustainable agriculture program coordinator:
Because what works for a tomato, as an example, won't work for a grape or a potato.
I'm also going to spend some time boning up on something called the Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops.
I put my pesos in and it molded fries out of potato starch, he said.
the Trakã Â r is meant to increase production of vegetables and flowers while protecting farm workers--who in the past would apply pesticides by hand--from the toxicity of the chemicals.
peaches, corn, strawberries, tomatoes, oranges, coffee and other produce. Now they have their eyes on Europe.
Plant okra and eggplant, of course. The Riverpark Farm at Alexandria Center was created this summer through a partnership between the Riverpark restaurant and the Alexandria Center for Life science â New york city.
how New yorkers can dine on fresh vegetables in the middle of the farm, and the one crop he d like to plant,
Tell me more about the innovation behind using milk crates to grow the vegetables. The design team really looked at how we would design the perfect vessel to do this.
but with radishes and carrots, there are several plants to a crate. So we have about 6, 000 plants.
Because we re using the vegetables and herbs in the restaurant, we re offsetting those costs.
We have between 80 and 100 varieties of plants that include eight varieties of tomatoes,
and six varieties of eggplant. We re growing all the greens for the restaurant â salad and cooking greens, all the herbs, bell peppers and spicy peppers.
We had too many peppers at one point, so we ve been drying and smoking them to preserve for winter.
We were harvesting between 50 and 100 cucumbers per day when it was really hot this summer.
and people who are passionate about having fresh vegetables, you could easily build support for it.
and vegetables because they more often go to waste. Percentage of Foods Wasted in U s. Fats and Oils (33%)Dairy (32%)Grains (32%)Eggs (31%)Sugar/caloric sweeteners (31%)Vegetables (25%)Fruit (23
%)Meat, poultry, fish (16%)Dry beans, peas, lentils (16%)Tree nuts and peanuts (16%)Related on Smartplanet:
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It's one of the largest seed-to-shelf companies in the world (potatoes oats, fruit.
and to sell fruits and vegetables directly to the people of Linkã Â ping, which is home it roughly 100,000 people.
Over there you'll see a lot of vertical stacked hydroponic systems used to cultivate lettuce, micro-greens, mushrooms and other produce.
Many purists believe that Vodka should only be made with potatoes from a small subset of places.
Sakhiwe Shongwe and Bonkhe Mahlalela-both 14 years old-developed a looked into growing lots and lots of crops and veggies with limited space and no soil.
they grew baby marrows and lettuce. The results favored their USHM system by a lot. There was a 152 percent increase in the population of plants per unit of land,
About 80 percent of the vegetables consumed in their home country aren't grown there-they're imported from South africa.
which are mainly a result of transportation cost of vegetables from South africa. There are all sorts of difficulties to growing food in Africa.
Weland said one of his biggest sources of pride is his organic vegetable and herb garden.
It started with 12 varieties of heirloom tomatoes, he said. Now we have two dozen fruit trees.
We have asparagus, almonds, cherries, heirloom apples, herbs â Â The cool thing is that we plant three times a year now â spring, summer and fall.
and donated to Endless Summer Harvest (the source of Poste hydroponic lettuce, arugula, butter lettuce and mache),
which uses it to heat their greenhouses in the winter. Humanely-raised animals; using nose-to-tail:
Yes, if the chef makes the sauce from the latest in tomato technology-genetically engineered purple tomatoes-a 16-inch pie could have the same health benefits as other foods such as blueberries and cranberries.
Purple tomatoes get their color from anthocyanin-a pigment also present in the berries and
England, which developed the tomatoes in the first place. The paper notes: Researchers hope that enhanced levels of the antioxidant anthocyanin contained in the tomatoes will improve the nutritional values of a range of foods including pizzas and ketchup.
Anthocyanin has been shown to help fight cancer in animals. The BBC quoted John Innes'Prof Cathie Martin:
With these purple tomatoes you can get the same compounds that are present in blueberries
Yves Marchand and Romaine Meffre document this tension in their book The Ruins of Detroit.
Detroit (Yves Marchand and Romaine Meffre/Reprinted with permission) Fisher Body 21 (Yves Marchand and Romaine Meffre/Reprinted with permission) William Livingstone House,
Detroit (Yves Merchand and Romaine Meffre/Reprinted with permission) Classroom, St margaret Mary School (Yves Marchand and Romaine Meffre/Reprinted with permission) Photos:
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The sheep that texted wolfsheepdogs have warned always herders of wolf attacks. But now the alert system just got a technological boost.
Scientists in Switzerland have created a collar for sheep that detects when their heart rates spike and sends a text message to their shepherd.
vegetables, egg shells, and organic materials) and reduce or eliminate waste going to landfills. If I can raise the money needed to get to Copenhagen in the next four days,
Pepsico has improved potato crop yields while decreasing the amount of water needed for irrigation. That's just one of the high-level takeaways shared by Ian Hope-Johnstone, director of agricultural sustainability for Pepsico global operations, with whom
Apples and potatoes discolor through a process call enzymatic browning, which is driven by polyphenol oxidase (PPO).
A group of Australian engineers had figured out how to silence the gene for PPO in potatoes.
Most of the soybeans, corn, papaya, and sugar beet currently sold in the U s. are GMO,
but apples would be the only mainstream commercially available fruit with the treatment. Monsanto's sweet corn is set to hit the market this fall.
Step aside pea brain. Hello bee brain. Warranty void after one sting. Photo: Mouagip via Wikimeda.
tasted leeks and asparagus fresh out of the ground, then created a feast using little or no electricity.
picked mushrooms in Poland, consumed copious amounts of alcohol and prepared unforgettable meals. Albert Adrã Â a of elbulli fame, the only chef to have attended all six events
Jimmy red corn and chioggia beets grew up Brock's arms, maize with corn smut covered Stupak's side,
and adopted Native american crops such as corn and squash. Slaves from West Africa introduced okra, cowpeas and benne and also served as the cooks for plantation kitchens.
Their fritters and one-pot stews gave rise to typical Lowcountry dishes such as Hoppin'John. Early in the week,
a female griot or storyteller--a West african tradition--stood up to bless our dinner in regional Creole as the group enthusiastically devoured a one-pot stew by local chef BJ Dennis. Both were Gullah,
His creation was a mouthwatering combination of broccoli greens, field peas, crab, shrimp and homemade coconut milk.
Okra gave it consistency, while habanero peppers and cayenne provided a kick. David Shields, a professor at the University of South carolina and the week's guest scholar, said that from 1820 to 1920 the Lowcountry boasted an extraordinary profusion of foods.
The main cash crop was Carolina Gold rice a long-grained variety with a nutty flavor that probably originated in Indonesia
Then California's cut-rate vegetables supplanted the local fare. After 1920 hundreds of ingredients from the Antebellum Southern larder simply disappeared.
cold tomato consommã Â and a green peanut emulsion. He had a second idea, a risotto,
including Carolina peas, raw peanuts, benne, barley and camelina, a microscopic oil seed from antiquity.
and in a world first, urine will be collected from purpose-built lavatories to be used as soybean and canola crop fertilizer.
and the glue is made entirely from soybeans--a first in the building world. At the end of its life, the plywood can be recycled into chipboard or wafer board.
While there is a need for growing fresh fruit and vegetables in our urban areas, it s not enough.
a man grows veggies with fish excrement instead of soil. Eric Maudu's garden is wired with sensors that let him know just how thirsty his plants are,
and an appetite for fresh vegetables. The parking lots in Oakland are not that different to where he grew up in Kenya, a country home to deserts and arid land.
characters like Maudu may inspire other urbanites to grow their own veggies. His tale has inspired already one of my friends.
For over three decades, the chemical has been hailed as safe and incredibly beneficial to the production of corn, soybean, and cotton.
and has made since billions of dollars from Roundup and â Ëoeroundup Ready'corn, soybeans, and cotton genetically engineered to survive dousings of glyphosate.
His family came away with a plant, some lettuce, mushrooms and green onions. Rosa Fajardo and her daughter, Itzel Patricio, traded 15 kilos of recyclable material for four houseplants and two rounds of cheese.
I checked the prices oe in points oe of cauliflower, Swiss chard, cilantro, spinach, mushrooms. The 20 or so vendors had been paid by the city in advance for their produce,
I settled on a large bouquet of dark green Swiss chard and two handfuls of cilantro and left the market with a certain satisfaction for having bartered trash for food.
and mushrooms as alternative packaging materials--experiment carefully before doing a widescale launch. I had a chance to debate this topic a bit with Gene Bodenheimer, senior vice president of product lifecycle logistics for Genco ATC
The new plastic is made from mushrooms Minimize packaging, don't minimize product protection Trade group makes case for environmentally sound packaging New battleground in beverage wars:
But in India, sales of the onion, a staple in Indian cooking, are soaring. But what's driving Indians to burn through Groupon's inventory of onions instead of just going to a local market?
As  Wall street journal explains, the price of onions has skyrocketed recently: The price of onions in India has been a talking point in recent weeks,
after price rises meant a kilogram of the widely used vegetable was being sold between 39.92 and 22.5 rupees a kilogram at the Azadpur market in New delhi, one of the country s largest wholesale markets.
For consumers, the  vegetable prices hit 85 rupees a kilogram and close to 100 rupees for that amount in some retail markets in the capital city recently.
The price of the Groupon's onion deal? Nine rupees per kilogram (approximately 14 U s. cents.
Over seven days, Groupon plans to put a limited number onions on sale (limited to one kilo per customer) and ship them for free to customers in 78 cities throughout India.
Looking at demand, the deal has been a hit. The onion inventory sold out the first day.
But onions aren't just a selling point for an American company looking to boost its customer base in India.
Like gas prices in the U s, . India's opposition party is using the rising onion prices to bash the ruling party.
Politicians have gone even so far as to set up their own discounted onion stands. This latest move from Groupon might not win them political office in India
but they might win over some new fans. Read more: Wall street journal Image: Groupon. co. in
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and community gardens could provide residents with a majority of their fruits and vegetables. Michigan State university researchers say that a combination of urban farms, community gardens,
storage facilities and hoop houses could supply residents with more than 75 percent of their vegetables and more than 40 percent of their fruits.
Even with a limited growing season, significant quantities of fresh fruits and vegetables eaten by Detroiters could be grown locally,
Artificial plants could beat bed bugsbean leaves effectively trap bed bugs Bean plant leaves won't bite bed bugs back,
when they examined an old folk remedy of scattering bean leaves to stop the pests,
It turns out that the bean leaf solution is as good as the best of those methods.
when English philosopher John Locke traveled across Europe with a supply of kidney bean leaves as defense against bed bug bites.
The Royal Austro-Hungarian Army used bean leaves to cleanse encampments and U s. researchers observed the effect in the 1940s, Borel noted.
They'll mix that in with  horse manure, old hay, wood chips. Do you bring the compost back once it's ready to use  in the roof garden?
and then planted a couple dozen different varieties of herbs, fall vegetables. We had lettuces and radishes, peppers, snow peas.
We're not trying to grow all of our own herbs. We just think it's a very cool and neat thing to do.
the cuisine encompasses a broad range of vegetables, legumes and game oe many of which serve as the base of traditional Mexican cooking,
including corn, chile and beans, as well as seeds, herbs and flowers. Meats that are considered pre-Hispanic include venison, duck, boar, armadillo or a squirrel-like rodent called tepezcuintle.
ZFD equipped slaughterhouse meat hooks with RFID Chips as part of the project which are used to record the weight of pigs before
or the soybeans used to make biodiesel. Better still, you can grow algae on arid land and in brackish water,
which avoids competing with food production, unlike the corn and soybeans that coat much of the Midwest's farmland.
like genetically modified (GM) food--such as Roundup Ready soybeans--should we be concerned that scientists are tinkering with Mother Nature?
so will your vegetables. New york city deserves better produce than the road weary lettuces and tomatoes that are trucked in thousands of miles,
said Lightfoot, CEO of Brightfarms, in a Saturday e-mail to Smartplanet. Brightfarms will soon be opening the nation's largest rooftop garden on top of an old Navy  warehouse  in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
When it opens in the first quarter of 2013, the 100,000 sq ft. garden is expected to yield one million pounds of hydroponically-grown produce annually,
including tomatoes, lettuces, and herbs. New york city consumers have been supportive of urban agriculture for years. In 2010, Brooklyn Grange opened a rooftop garden in Long island City, Queens, Â with the help of a successful Kickstarter campaign.
that produces various fruits and vegetables on approximately 12,000 acres of farmland across the state of California.
Upstairs, rows of tomatoes, peppers, lettuce and even flowers line the walls amidst the zen-like sounds of trickling water.
and vegetables grow bigger faster. Though the system may date back to the Aztecs, aquaponics is gaining modern traction in places where food transport
At 24 metric tons of fish and 34 metric tons of vegetables in annual output, an ECF Cityfarm could feed 350 families for a year--making the business model viable for franchising, especially in large cities.
they tell you'I have my tomatoes in my garden out back, and I get fish from the river,
Bpeace entrepreneur Sora Stoda wants to start a potato chip company in Afghanistan I understand one of your entrepreneurs is trying to start a potato chip company in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan in an import economy; they dont make much of anything. In the old days--30 years ago they were the worlds second largest exporter of raisins.
Same thing with potatoes. Afghans love chips but theyre imported. Sora Stoda 21 years old decided to start a potato chip factory using local potatoes and local oil.
She will be coming here in October and spending a few weeks at potato chip companies here. Shes going to apprentice at North Fork Chips on Long island and another chip manufacturer in Pennsylvania.
Shes not up and running yet, but were hopeful shell be ready to open by the time shes done with this trip.
How do you measure the increase in peace, to determine whether this is working? Its hard to measure,
but I can tell you what we do measure. We never think of ourselves as a charity,
whether the chips could help promote Brazil's sustainable forestry industry. With radio-frequency identification, the chips,
which are encased in white plastic, notify forest managers of the tree's whereabouts in its travels from tree to log to mill.
and new product materials such as soy, corn and mushrooms. Moderator Lance Hosey, president and CEO of Greenblue (a nonprofit focused on sustainable design and production in business and industry) started off the discussion by telling us that we produce some 300 billion pounds of plastic a year
and Mycoply (used to replace balsawood) are made from agricultural waste and mushrooms. Theyre very fringe its rudimentary uses now:
and vegetable slush to prepare paper. His backyard holds a small mill with one Šbeater  machine that produces about 40kgs of pulp.
who grows vegetables and wheat in a 2500 sq meter patch of land. Å So now I dont have to use urea or chemical fertilizers,
Beans, sorghum, pulses and soya are processed into packaged food product for sale in cities. Photo: Cleanstar Mozambique Related:
since about 2005 in hundred of installations in Turkey focused on growing greenhouse tomatoes. Those systems were sold by Climateminder's predecessor corporation,
It's one thing to take wood chips in a lab and put them in my test tube,
In the United kingdom, the company is working in way to capture the water in the potatoes that go into making its crisps (American translation=potato chips.
Turns out there is a lot of water in raw spuds. This practice has helped the facility reduce water usage by 42 percent so far.
the lettuce in your Caesar salad might come from the building across the way. Demand for locally grown produce is rising in urban areas,
including herbs, lettuces, and tomatoes. We look at food creation in the same way as you look at making subway stops,
but like the United nations analysis, it calls for a focus on local and indigenous vegetables as a means of curbing food shortages
but from listening to farmers, investing in indigenous vegetables and changing how foods are processed and marketed.
if Cleveland converted 80%of its vacant lots into farms it could produce 22%to 48%of the city's demand for fresh produce (vegetables
Cultivating cucumbers where the sun don't shinethere s an old adage in the retail industry:
and rows of various vegetable and herb plants including tomatoes, strawberries, cucumbers, zucchinis, radishes, peppers, peas, cresses, lettuces, tulips and orchids.
Plantlab tunes the LEDS to just the right wavelength that a particular vegetable prefers. LEDS are driven current semiconductors that lend themselves well to tuning.
Decoding the killer blight behind The irish potato faminean international research team has decoded the genome of the notorious blight that caused The irish potato famine in the 1840s.
That same organism now threatens tomato and potato crops across the U s.--even attacking genetically resistant potatoes that have been bred to fend off infection.
The study, published in Nature, reveals that the organism's unusually large genome size more than twice that of closely related species
The potato famine that gripped Europe, especially Ireland, in the mid-19th century was thought long to be a fungus.
wet weather and can infect potatoes, tomatoes and related plants, causing a late blight disease that can destroy entire crops in days.
The researchers, led by scientists at the Broad Institute and the Sainsbury Laboratory, first decoded the P. infestans genome
which infects soybeans, and P. ramorum, which causes a condition known as sudden oak death. The researchers found a large amount of repetitive DNA in the massive genome.
And as its population mushrooms, so do pressures on its landscape. Sea level rise is expected to force millions of Bangladeshis living along its coast to seek drier ground,
Elelyso for the lysosomal storage disorder Gaucher disease, produced in carrot cells. Drugs made in duckweed, safflower,
BP scraps cellulosic ethanol plant plans Turning pine trees into jet fuel Wood chip-to-sugar maker scales up to replace oil and food crops
butanol, cellulosic ethanol, omega-3 acidsnew YORK--Dupont wants to help raiseã Â sustainably-farmed salmon by offering them a diet loaded with omega-3 fatty acids that it manufactures from soybeans.
 They found that healthier diet patterns--for example, diets rich in fruits, vegetables, fish, and nuts--cost significantly more than unhealthy diets (for example, those rich in processed foods, meats, and refined grains).
Cofounder and CEO of Ecovative Design, Bayer is on a mission to replace all packaging foam with a new material made from agricultural byproducts and mushrooms.
You say mushrooms are nature s recycling system. Explain that. In general most of the things in plants that are hard to recycle,
but mushrooms produce the enzymes to do so. In forests there s a lot of fungi that are breaking down the compounds.
So the mycelium from mushrooms you use that as a glue to hold together these agricultural byproducts?
That mycelium is sort of like the root structure of a mushroom. Mycelium is comprised of tiny hollow fibers,
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and vegetables to a dozen such food deserts in the Indianapolis area. For those readers unfamiliar with the term, the phrase food desert refers to urban neighborhoods
The biodegradable products can be made from corn starch, soy starch or potato starch. People put a lot of thought into some of these products,
Many of the tests were focused on artichokes and apricots, which are seen as less traditionally-Spanish crops,
Artichokes are good because they need less water. In Murcia, research was conducted to see if organic fertilizers and biofertilizers could enhance the growth of the Santa rosa plum.
and vegetables has helped reduce paper associated with ensuring food safety, improving productivity by 50 percent. The technology has allowed also the cooperative to better analyze its supply chain processes,
The company has talked in fact about interest from China, Argentina, Chile and Canada, where farmers hope to buy the company's fish eggs
Supermarkets throw out $15 billion in fruits and vegetables each year, according to U s. Department of agriculture estimates. Whether it's last week's home-cooked leftovers,
forgotten fruit turning brown in a refrigerator or those end-of-shift fast food burgers and fries,
Gunders pointed to one farmer who realized 70 percent of his carrots went to waste
So he cut them into baby carrots and sold them for 50 cents a pound compared to the 1. 7 cents he got for regular carrots.
She also noted that one of the nation's largest retail grocers, the $16 billion Stop & Shop chain
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