Cottage Food Operations Workshop Offered by UC Cooperative Extension

May 18, 2015

...should attend? This workshop is designed especially for farmers of fruits, vegetables, nuts, herbs, and honey interested in making value-added products in home kitchens as Cottage Food Operations (CFOs). Workshop is open to everyone. What is a Cottage Food Operation? The California Homemade Food Act (AB1616) allows individuals to prepare and package certain non-potentially hazardous foods in private-home kitchens referred to as “Cottage Food Opera...

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Physalis pruinosa a.k.a. “Ground Cherry”

Mr. Homegrown

April 30, 2007

Gardening

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...he best arguments for growing your own food–access to flavorful and exotic fruits and vegetables. The very similar Cape Gooseberry (Physalis perviana) is commercially cultivated in many places in the world but is not considered an important crop. It is most commonly used in jams and pies. According to the Horticulture department of Purdue University, In England, the cape gooseberry was first reported in 1774. Since that time, it has been grown the...

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Eight Things to Consider When Saving Vegetable Seeds

Mr. Homegrown

September 24, 2013

Gardening, Seeds, Vegetable Gardening

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...be advantageous if you’re having trouble in your garden.] 2. Know how the vegetable is pollinated It’s much easier to save the seeds of self-pollinating vegetables such as beans, peas and tomatoes. Remember that bees can fly for miles–anything pollinated by insects have to be isolated or caged to prevent cross-pollination. And many vegetables have weedy cousins. Try to save the seeds of carrots without caging and you may get a carrot/Queen Anne’s...

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Damned Figs!

Mr. Homegrown

March 14, 2008

Gardening

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...r of . . . Styrofoam packing materials. We tried everything from drying to making jam with these accursed figs but never got satisfactory results. During the day flies laid their larvae in the fruits yielding gooey masses that would drop to the ground to provide rotting fig feasts to visiting rats and possums. We replaced the fig tree with the Valencia orange tree in the photo above. One of the most important lessons we’ve learned in our ten years...

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Saturday Linkages: Paleo Flour, Viking Tents and Chinese Cabbage as the New Kale

Mr. Homegrown

September 19, 2015

Saturday Linkages

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...— Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 18, 2015 Startling animated MRIs of fruits and vegetables via @BoingBoing http://t.co/a7BavXmdvN — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 18, 2015 Tent Porn – Dual Viking Tent. This is pretty damn… http://t.co/zm3C72NKKy — Prepper Chicks (@PrepperChicks) September 16, 2015 Toilet Garden http://t.co/ulBQ0q4pe9 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 16, 2015 Is your honey cut with sugar syrup? http://t.co/SzuMwM3xs...

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