February 23, 2026 In the mid 1980s, prices for Sun Crest peaches plummeted. Fruit brokers advised farmers to dump their peaches. Aghast at the idea, Mas Masumoto, a Japanese farmer in the Central Valley of California, sold his boxes of peaches for 50 cents each. From Japanese Buddhism, you say Itadakimasu before you eat. This […]
January 21, 2026 Can you name the plant genus that includes a huge percentage of our cool weather food crops, and includes the third most important oilseed crop in the world? Also in this genus is an invasive weed that starves out all competition, common throughout our Southwest, California, Utah, and Mexico. The genus is […]
March 16, 2013 On February 27 I attended a panel discussion on, Enlisting Nature to Stem Climate Change: Capturing carbon in our NW cities, farms and forests, co-sponsored by the Sustainable Path Foundation and Climate Solutions. Speakers discussed ways in which forest, urban, and agricultural landscapes can be managed to increase their ability to capture […]