grind and brew the beans themselves, a process that involves precise timing, temperature and often thousands of dollars worth of equipment.
since Blossom One has partnered with high-end growers to provide beans that come in QR-coded bags,
because we didn't want untreated municipal wastewater in our lettuce. Now we have technologies to ensure those things don't happen.
The researchers'next move will be to inject ACR3 into the genome of a flowering plant, thale cress (Arabidopsis),
like balcony gardens and places for staff to grow their own veggies. Located in the Central St giles Building in London's Covent garden, the new 16,000 square foot space also includes such cutting-edge ideas for the workplace like a gym,
the lucky gardeners get to spend some off-time working with herbs and veggies and work together in a non-work way.
a midsize produce delivery company that uses about 65 trucks to deliver fruits and vegetables to Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee and Wisconsin.
which already manufactures plastic from corn, potatoes, tapioca and wheat, says algae-based plastic could replace up to 50 percent of petroleum content found in traditional plastic resin.
where needy residents not only get seasonal vegetables, but also cooking demonstrations and tastings to help them prepare the food.
Black beans and pinto beans, rice and amaranth, soups and dressings, milk, yogurt, cheese and coffee, sweets and jams:
Crooked carrots are good, and good for you. The world throws away up to half of its food according to an alarming report that blames consumers'fussy preference for cosmetically appealing produce,
Consider IME's report as food for thought the next time you reject a crooked carrot or a lumpy apple.
The state of food in 2012 China mulls vegetables on Mars $282 million of turkey trashed during U s. Thanksgiving Your next refrigerator could be a magnet Fenugreen's Freshpaper lets produce keep for longer
and flowerbeds of her garden filled with organic vegetables and fruits. Snails! she exclaimed--before finishing,
Mathur uses pheromone traps and sticky traps as well as a garlic and red chili paste to get rid of the bugs.
For Mathur, it s been a lifelong dream to spend her time growing flowers and vegetables.
High levels of pesticides in vegetables as an issue have gained prominence in the last four to five years.
Organic vegetables are more costly than the regular fare. If seasonal, they cost about 20 percent to 30 percent more.
which found that vegetables in Delhi carried pesticides 750 times more than the European union standards. It found contamination of banned pesticides heptachlor and chlordane
which affects the liver, in spinach and bitter gourd. In May, the Delhi High court ordered the government to conduct surprise checks to test vegetables
and fruits in wholesale and retail markets in Delhi for ensuring that these commodities do not contain pesticides beyond permissible limits.
Singh said that she is happy to higher prices for the vegetables and remarked that many families she knows have diagnosed a member with cancer.
So if you're wondering why a head of lettuce has jumped from $1. 59 to $2. 00
Honeybees pollinate close to 90 crops such as avocados, cucumbers, sprouts, apples, onions, broccoli, coffee and tomatoes.
Foods and beverages produced with the help of animal pollinators include almonds, apples, blueberries, coffee, melons and soybeans.
but most of the city s meat, vegetables and seafood are imported from Mainland china. Overall, the agriculture industry in Hong kong has gone into decline over the past few decades.
In fact, the market share of locally grown vegetables and fruits has shrunk from 30 percent in the 1990s to 2. 3 percent in 2011, according to the government.
Leisure farms have sprung up to fill a new niche, providing organic vegetables, which are sold often at farmer s markets.
In the past two months, they have grown cherry tomatoes and salad greens here. It s fun to come out and plant our own food,
which include papayas, corn, bananas, ginger, sugar cane, lettuce and tomatoes. The farm is edged almost entirely by a babbling brook,
which provides an energy-saving irrigation system--still a work in progress â for its vegetables and fish.
Graphic designer Nacho Cadena describes the design as transparent clean and salubrious. It's inspired by artisan processes,
since the world's largest pumpkin weighed in at 1, 061 pounds(#209) in 1996.
Last year's record-setting pumpkin grew to more than a ton. Some Real Facts have been retired but it s unclear
You get everything from kale and melon to eggs and dairy. We just have a short growing season.
Now the city uses the sludge as fertilizer on its 1, 340 acres of city-owned corn and soybean fields.
or meatloaf or mashed potatoes. Some of the other items may not taste as good as they would have
Does this mean fruits and vegetables? Fresh foods are defined as foods that aren't on our official list.
Carrot sticks and celery will last a little while. Some will bring up more delicate items, such as tomatoes or kiwi or avocado.
But if there's any delay or they forget to transfer it over for International Space station,
and vegetables or process wheat flour and make pasta or breads or make a pasta sauce. We're looking at
astronauts exploring Mars will build hydroponic growth labs where vegetables can be grown. These crops will provide the crew with added nutrition and variety./
and vegetables to feed most of the local demand for produce. If vacant urban lots were transformed into farms and community gardens,
locals in Detroit could get 75 percent of their vegetables and 40 percent of their fruit this way.
A dozen garden boxes brimming with 20 heirloom tomato varieties, peppers, squash and eggplant are begging for her attention outside in the Northern California sunshine.
But Bartz has carved out 50 minutes or so for our phone interview after I tracked down her assistant through Cisco,
Those vegetables, along with the recalcitrant orchids she also raises as a hobby, are a perennial fixture across the four-acre estate in Atherton,
Every evening trucks carrying half-eaten cabbage, decomposing Kung Pao Chicken, and other food discarded in restaurants
which the plant s designers say is ideal for growing organic fruit and vegetables. Food waste accounts for more than half of the nearly 20,000 tons of garbage Beijing generates daily, most
and disaster relief housing is very trendy these days, especially in the wake of Katrina and the earthquakes in Chile and Haiti.
I took a few of the small brown chips and popped them into my mouth. They were crunchy and salty with a slightly sweet honey taste,
me a sorrel leaf folded around a bit of cricket miso, beet reduction and lacto-fermented red currants.
In India, Mcdonald's to open first ever veggie outlets in sacred spotsdelhi--Fast food giant, Mcdonalds Corp,
Å You can t have any onions and it isn t spicy. Â Srivastava, who works at a nonprofit organization in Delhi, finds going to Mcdonald s always a bit of fun.
no doubt, is the driving force behind the veggie decision. India with a population of 1. 2 billion people presents a huge market for American fast-food chains.
Mcdonalds, for instance, already offers potato and cottage-cheese based items that are hugely popular. It also maintains separate kitchens to prepare vegetarian and non-vegetarian food.
 ŠI can assure you that Indians have many more than a hundred varieties of veggie fast food,
not just a plain one-size-fits-all potato patty, Â she writes in The Guardian.
His vegetarian burger consists of a bun and a potato patty with a mix of tangy and sweet sauces available for Rs. 10 (18 cents.
Makgeolli, servied with battered prawns, chilis and soy sauce at Sanchez (Andrew Salmon) Â Another factor contributing to makgeolli's trendiness was that it was partly reverse imported oe ironically oe from Japan
and I like kale, Â she said, much to the bewilderment of her classmates. Â A longtime vegetarian with a macrobiotic mother, Beddard grew up familiar with the health food scene in the US.
she realized one thing was missing in the City of light oe a precious leafy green known as kale.
Beddard launched The Kale Project earlier this year to reintroduce the forgotten vegetable to the Parisian food scene.
Kale is part of the cabbage family, with several varieties that today, in France, function largely as decorative plans in gardens.
however, exceed those in most other green vegetables. Â Rich in vitamins A c, K as well as fiber, calcium,
and a slew of other minerals, it tops even spinach in terms of health perks. Â The french,
however, have ignored seemingly kale for years, with few markets in the country offering the green.
 Pastry chef and Paris food blogger David Lebovitz has written about the trials of finding kale in Paris.  Å
I think Parisians don't embrace kale because they don't have a fondness for very strong flavors,
and selling kale at local markets in tandem with local farmers. Â She hopes that the trendiness of the plant in restaurants from New york to Los angeles will help to attract Parisian consumers.
A Penn State graduate turned New york advertising accounts manager, Beddard doesn t fit the profile of someone who would be plowing the fields to grow kale.
 I just know it s an awesome vegetable,  she said. Kale also runs in the family.
 Beddard s uncle is one of the largest organic farmers on the East Coast,
further supporting her cred as a kale ambassador to France. Å I think it s a huge opportunity to bring something to this country where food is so important
Beddard managed to find two French farmers at local Parisian markets who expressed interest in The Kale Project.
hoping that a successful harvest will mean kale at the markets within the coming months.
what kale is and how it can be used. Â Through grassroots campaigns pamphlets, and social media, she hopes The Kale Project will function as a brand to educate The french.
 ŠI want people to recognize that this is something new and different, and that it s a partnership with somebody who is bringing something new to France,
and recipes to help show consumers how kale can be used in daily meals. Far from a food trend like hamburger or bagels in Paris
Beddard hopes that kale will go the way of the parsnip, becoming widely accepted in French cooking and in markets across the country.
 ŠIf the idea of kale education and me telling the story is irrelevant in two years, then
Her end goal is to have made kale consistently available in Paris and eventually in France,
The Kale Project
In Philadelphia, floriculture is big businessthe Best in Show winner from Michael Petrie's Handmade Gardens was inspired by hand-wrought iron sculptures.
Is growing vegetables from sewer water the next big thing in reuse? Brinjal, papaya, snake-gourd and black sugarcane are just a few of the crops Keshav Tavre grows on his suburban plot on the outskirts of Mumbai--all of it from a supply of untreated sewage that snakes past his land.
Is the green shade of Green Means Go, a juice with kale, spinach and ginger
To change a single color on a bag of tortilla chips using the old design method,
$48 billion snack food and quick meal company Kraft has made some significant strides in corporate sustainability in the past four years.
so testing is currently being conducted on tomatoes, avocado and other citrus fruits. Naturally, the process still must be approved by the U s. Food
Palm oil-105g Soybean â oe 103g Rapeseed â oe 95g Sunflower â oe 86g Palm oil with methane capture â oe 83g
36g Sugar beet â oe 34g Wheat (straw as process fuel in CHP plants) â oe 35g 2g Ethanol (land-using) â oe 32g 2g Biodiesel (land-using) â
The top biodiesel crops--palm, soybean, and rapeseed oil--are all the least energy efficient. However, they are also the cheapest to produce,
to encourage truck farming and vegetables, or to reduce their subsidies in any way threatens mass starvation, here and around the world.
Mcdonald's tried to dodge all this by making apple slices an option, next to french fries, in its meals.
It lies with Mcdonald's taking up the carrot being offeredâ in Santa clara and seizing an opportunity.
cut back a bit on salting the fries, and you're done. Mcdonald's might make up for any loss by adding premiums (for teens
Eating too much meat, too many chips, donuts, hotdogs, pies, and all of the processed stuff that s offered today,
Food security Peter Singer argued that we waste most of the food value of the grains and soybeans we feed to animals.
and soybeans that we put into them, he said. In contrast Bruce Mcgregor, the third member of the negative team, said that removing animals off the menu threatens our food security and the livelihood of at least two billion people.
Gone are the mung beans and bland wholemeal pies that accompanied the whiff of 1970s hippydom.
I grow my own veggies because I like to know where my food comes from, and because it gets me better quality produce for less money,
including genetically modified sugar beets, and could make it easier for GM CROPS to stay on the market, since it will be no longer be possible to ban an approved crop without a full hearing.
Some 95 percent of beets grown in the U s. carry the Monsanto bacterial gene that resists the herbicide glyphosate, present in Roundup Ready.
For example, 92 percent of soybeans and 85 percent of corn uses Monsanto technology, leaving them helpless when Mother Nature strikes back.
including pigweed and horseweed â are growing on millions of acres of farmland in 22 states,
Scientists find fungi that could give next-gen biofuels a boostthe formula to low-cost biofuel might be found within mushrooms.
Mushroom power Enter the heat-loving fungi. The Energy department has several research projects aimed at finding heat tolerant enzymes from fungi and microbes such as cellulases that break down plant cell walls and convert biomass into fermentable sugars.
AND that is made from plant-sourced materials including switch grass, orange peels and potato peels. Actually, the agricultural materials that will go into these bottles are byproducts from its foods business,
The new plastic is made from mushrooms Coca-cola packaging: Goal is all new beverages in Plantbottles by 2020 Despite Sunchips flap,
The sensor works by detecting levels of ethylene, a ripening hormone in fruits and vegetables.
and boron atoms to create an onion-like material. Then, when compressed and subjected to intense heat and pressure (1,
Today, the farmers continue to produce organic produce for local vendors that include tomatoes, peppers, herbs, fennel, greens,
and root veggies. Conceived by Ben Flanner, the farm was created in the spirit of farm-to-table dining,
Fifth-graders can participate in the school's garden to cafe program, growing tomatoes, zucchini, squash,
The Gates Foundation brought in 50 gallons of fake feces made from soybeans and rice for the demonstrations,
The weekly reports of toxic bean sprouts, milk containing leather-hydrolyzed protein, aluminum-tainted dumplings and cadmium-laced rice is enough to make anyone wary of
But one fleet of cars remains on the roads, ferrying soily of vegetables to far-flung apartment blocks.
went to visit nearby farms which grow fruit and vegetables without pesticides. They discovered at least 12 organic farms in the Beijing area
 That s why Yujing will continue to spend her Friday mornings lugging bags of cabbage, radishes and turnips up the staircases of Huilongguan s suburban apartment blocks.
The Green league's produce, such as carrots, can cost four times as much as equivalents in local supermarkets.
organic vegetables are beyond the means of the majority of Beijing s households. We even have some parents who order the vegetables for their child,
but eat nonorganic vegetables themselves, Â Yujing said. It's would be better if more people could enjoy food as clean as this
Overlooked Los angeles through the lens of Bruce Davidsonknown for his iconic images of Brooklyn street gangs in the 50s, East 100th street in Harlem,
and branding company Celery Design devised for shipping multiple Lemnis LED bulbs is definitely a bright idea.
Celery dreamed up a modular system that can accommodate just one or up to six bulbs.
Brian Dougherty, Celery Design cofounder, says Lemnis ultimately opted to use an overseas packager that went with a different bulk shipping solution.
Still, the modular design Celery offered is a step in the right direction. Celery also developed a super-smart primary packaging solution for the bulbs that could be converted into a light shade.
Ikea jumps out of the pallet pool Wooden pallets are starting to lose their longstanding reign over the transport world.
Steve Gibson, Celery Design, Ikea Group, Intelligent Thermal Solutions
Paris cultural center welcomes lawn-mowing sheepparis The sounds of gasoline-powered lawn mowers could soon be replaced entirely by the gentle bleating of hungry farm animals in The french capital.
Pepsico goes off the water gridthe potato is about 80 percent water. The potato chip? Well, by the time the potato becomes a crispy chip,
the water is gone mostly, deliciously replaced by oil. Still, potato chip factories need a lot of water to make their salty snacks.
So why not take the water from the potato itself? That's what Pepsico hopes to do in four of its Walkers'Crisp factories in the United kingdom. Walkers boasts that all of its potatoes come from The british countryside,
but what if drought strikes? In that case, they could just begrudgingly outsource their spuds from Europe
but there are other uncertainties looming: possible changes in climate, regional water usage spurred by population growth,
and governmental water regulations. Instead of waiting for future restrictions to unfold, the company says it would rather see what it can do with
what its got. And what they've got is about 350,000 tons of potatoes each year.
The somewhat vague plan given is to use existing technologies already at work in the world's drier areas
and to somehow capture the water vapor that burns off when the potatoes cook. The Guardian quotes Walter Todd, Pepsico's vice president of sustainability in Europe:
We are looking at it with a new lens around where we get all our key ingredients such as sunflower oil for our crisps,
or potato-reliant, for their water supply. The company is spending more than $350, 000 to test the i-Crop.
Linked to a weather forecast system, this monitor would measure moisture in a potato field. If successful, the smart irrigation system would give the tubers precisely the amount of water they require for optimal growth,
Pepsico says it will also experiment with different types of potato that require less water to grow.
In five years, their goal is to have found spud substitutes for 90 percent of their Saturna
Hermes and Lady Rosetta potatoes. Images: Pepsico and Flickr/Debs Koritsas Via:
Pepsico invests in growing healthy snacks segment in Mexicomexico CITY--Pepsico has chosen one of the world's fattest nations-Mexico-as a home base for the development of its global healthy snacks initiative.
Mexico's expanding middle-class and its relatively high obesity rate make the country an ideal market for snack food manufacturers aiming to expand sales opportunities for more health-minded products
according to a report by Santiago, Chile-based Euromonitor International titled Mexico: The New El dorado for Healthy Snacks?
That boils down to pumping more grains, nuts, seeds, fruits and vegetables into its product portfolio,
Sabritas and Ruffles potato chips, Cheetos and Doritos led their respective categories in 2010, according to Euromonitor International.
In the U k. alone, it's the largest purchaser of domestic potatoes and a top buyer of local oats and apples.
after a trial period, gives them refrigerators (manufactured in North Philly) for stocking fresh fruits and vegetables.
and small refrigerator cases with greens, tomatoes and, in at least one instance, bags containing 50 cents'worth of grapes sold out on the day
That's good news for teacher Anna Christiansen, who says many of her students cannot recognize an artichoke or eggplant.
In response, the city has passed a zoning update with new urban agriculture laws to allow the farming of vegetables on empty lots.
There are young women teaching old women how to plant tomatoes in the grass between high rises;
The parents of John O'Donnell (right) were fleeing The irish potato famine, which his granddaughter, my great aunt, later told me meant all the Irish had to eat was potatoes.
In fact the crop failed due to a potato blight, whose genome scientists have decoded just now. Which turns out to have a lot in common with a disease stalking my family (and yours) today, the flu.
It's now threatening potato and tomato crops throughout the U s. Flu has similar adaptability.
Just this week scientists have found N1h1 infecting deeper into the lungs than seasonal flu
 Some of the more surprising projects in the region include rooftop gardens with meter-deep soil for growing vegetables,
We â â¢re not selling potatoes. We â â¢re not selling a particular product.
With that investment of $25, a farm family can grow half an acre of vegetables in the dry season and increase their income by $100 a year net on average.
How many cabbages are they growing in their field? Learn everything there is to know about the context of the problem
who will give up a filet mignon or truffles for a plain liquid drink, and why Soylent may one day help extend our average life span.
Lots of fruits and vegetables are good, avoid fast food. But no one was focusing on specific biochemical or metabolic details of consuming food.
Over the past several years, Philadelphia has revamped its school food offerings with striking success. Over a lunch of wraps and baked chips
â Â his classmates hoped the school would serve snacks of baby carrots or grapes rather than pretzels.
New lunch standards included reducing fat and sodium content, increasing whole grain foods and doubling fruit and vegetables.
Marks remembered visiting a Philadelphia elementary school where students experimented with tasting new fruits and vegetables.
where red foods like strawberries and cabbage grace the menu, and fundraisers promoting fruit salad and smoothies instead of candy and brownies.
a fruit or vegetable must accompany the entree. With a fruit and vegetable bar, students decide
whether they â â¢re in the mood for orange wedges or bite-sized broccoli. â Å You â â¢re not putting something in their plate that they â â¢re not going to eat â
Amsterdam's Manneken Pis chip shop, named after Brussels'famous pissing boy statue, serves weed-flavored mayo.
They go a long way toward establishing a place's image (will California ever shake its sprouts? and reaffirming its identity.
You can find the newest condiment for your french fries in Amsterdam of course, the city where hooch is so legal you can puff away in certain coffee shops
At the Manneken Pis chip shop, owner Albert van Beek has created a mayo spread for his chips (what red-blooded Americans call french fries) that tastes like cannabis,
High Fries anyone? If you want to put this subject in your pipe and smoke it some more, watch this one-minute Youtube clip:
to encourage natural legumes and weeds; and to discourage certain woody growths that are competing with the forest and not very helpful to wildlife.
Saltwater-cooled greenhouse grows crops in the Saharahow do you grow vegetables in arid areas?
Its Qatar pilot plant produced 75 kilograms of crops (like cucumbers) per square meter annually while consuming only sunlight and seawater, Science reports.
â Â says Richard Tutwiler at the American University in Cairo. â Å How much did it cost to produce 75 kg of cucumbers per square meter?
home to the nation fourth-largest farming area and has supported long itself through the production of rice, fruits, vegetables, tobacco and silk,
Thomas finds the food fear in Japan baffling a sign of modern and misbegotten hysteria. â Å The most important thing to do immediately after the accident was to restrict the consumption of locally produced milk and green leafy vegetables
and vegetables closer to the ground. Further down the path an edible arboretum full of exotic looking persimmons, mulberries, Asian pears,
and soil to raise a tomato. Will Bratton and Samuel Bagot believe a much better tomato can be brought to life in their horto domi (latin for garden at home) kit,
which uses an Arduino ethernet link, an open source hardware platform and sensors to precisely monitor and automatically manage the temperature, light and moisture inside a small domed garden.
a tractor pulled a wheeled, metal contraption over rows of budding iceberg lettuce plants. Engineers from Silicon valley tinkered with the software on a laptop to ensure the machine was eliminating the right leafy buds.
The engineers were testing the Lettuce Bot, a machine that can"thin"a field of lettuce in the time it takes about 20 workers to do the job by hand.
The thinner is part of a new generation of machines that target the last frontier of agricultural mechanization fruits
and vegetables destined for the fresh market, not processing, which have resisted thus far mechanization because they're sensitive to bruising.
the Salinas-based fresh produce company that owns the field where the Lettuce Bot was being tested.
On the Salinas Valley farm, entrepreneurs with Mountain view-based startup Blue River Technology are trying to show that the Lettuce Bot can
"Using Lettuce Bot can produce more lettuce plants than doing it any other way, "said Jorge Heraud, the company's cofounder and CEO.
Another company, San diego-based Vision Robotics, is developing a similar lettuce thinner as well as a pruner for wine grapes.
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