Know your meat source. Grassfed beef biggie Tallgrass Beef of Sedan, Kansas, is the latest client of IdentiGEN North America Inc., subsidiary of the Irish IdentiGEN Ltd. The company’s DNA TraceBack technology allows meat to be traced to the farm where it was raised (unlike, say, the tainted hamburger recounted recently in the NY Times). [...]
Entries Tagged as 'gardening'
Roundup: Doing, learning for better food
October 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Roundup
Tags:beef·composting·gardening·movies
Roundup: Tours, harvests, ag news and more
July 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Books, Growing food, Roundup
Lots of news to report, from activities to politics to getting informed. Read on for local and larger news and links.
On a local level
KSU photo
Having a field day. If this amazingly mild weather holds, I just may change my mind about skipping this Saturday’s (July 25) horticulture field day at Kansas State’s Research and [...]
Roundup: Urban gardens, food terms, wonders
June 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Farmers markets, Food in the news, Roundup
Get set for garden tour. The “Food from the City, for the City” tour of 30 food-producing gardens and market farms in the Kansas City is on Sunday. Put it on your calendar, and if you attend, let us know here. I probably won’t be able to make it, but I’d love to get your [...]
Tags:gardening·restaurants
Heartland Harvest Garden worth a trip
June 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments · General
If the whole “edible landscape” notion has seemed unrealistic to you, the Heartland Harvest Garden at Powell Gardens in Missouri just might make you reconsider. Heartland Harvest Garden, which officially opened Sunday (June 14, 2009) is 12 acres of edible landscape, which garden officials claim make it the biggest such garden in the country.
Timely gardens
It’s [...]
Tags:gardening
Garden family has plenty growing
June 1st, 2009 · 3 Comments · Growing food
Unlike my sisters, I’ve never had much success trying to grow food. In my gardening career, I’ve only had slight success and only twice. Once was with a tomato plant that my daughter started from seed (I think; memory fuzzy here). We must have gotten at least a half-dozen tomatoes, far more than any other [...]
Food garden tours taking root in area
May 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Food in the news, local food
Garden tours around here used to mean flower gardens, but food gardens have joined the tour options this year in Lawrence and Kansas City. (I say “this year” because I’m not aware of previous such tours, but I’m not ruling out the possibility, and I don’t have time to research it right now.) Put these [...]
Tags:gardening
