The latest issue of The AgriNutrition Edge Report is live. Check out my new blog, Water: The “Juice of Life…and a Peach.” Summer means peaches everywhere...but Coloradans say the best are from the Palisade area. To produce these gems, though, growers must deal with...
We’re in the middle of the summer harvest of fruits and vegetables all across the United States and one of the stars of the season is peaches! For those of us from the southern part of the U.S., we may argue that peaches from Georgia and surrounding states are the...
The future of agriculture is based on the principles of sustainability: sustaining generations of farmers and their land and maintaining an economical and environmentally sound business. Easier said than done! Today, many farmers are in their sixties. The growth of...
Growing up on small family owned dairy farm, wasting food was not an option, both from a monetary perspective and family well-being. As a small child, my father had experienced folks stopping by his family’s farm asking for food in exchange for work during the Great...
Last December, my husband and I happened upon Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese while in the San Francisco area for a wedding and my “love affair” started; not only with the cheese but with the philosophy and commitment by the Giacomini family. In 1959, Bob and Dean...
It’s National Farmer’s Day but for the average farmer October 12th is no different than any other day. It’s just another day to rise early, check the weather and prepare for the day’s tasks at hand. And most would say… “We don’t need a celebration, we’re just doing our job.” But it is good to remember that we have food and drink today because of a farmer!