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Harvest Eating Article Index
The article index contains a wealth of information regarding local foods, farming and sustainability. We cover everything from raw milk, to grass fed beef, pasture-based farming and nutritional benefits of whole foods. The index is updated with new articles often so check back and be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed.
We're looking for contributors so if you're a blogger who writes on the topics above feel free to contact us with a sample of your work.
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Food Industry Urged to Cut Salt to Improve Global Health
By IBTimes Staff
The United Nations needs to make reducing salt content in foods a worldwide priority to improve global public health, said British researchers in a new report. Writing in the British Medical Journal, researchers said there are enormous health benefits associated with a cut in salt consumption. In fact, scientists believe a 15 percent reduction could save about 8.5 million lives across the globe in the next decade. . . .
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Healthy vending machines dispense with junk food
By JAMES A. FUSSELL, The Kansas City Star
It's 2:30 in the afternoon, and your stomach is gurgling. Before long, you're in vending-machine land eyeballing the choices, which for decades have consisted mostly of pop, chips, chocolate and those fluorescent orange crackers. But increasingly, workers and others with gurgling stomachs are finding a new ally to help slay the afternoon munchies: the healthy vending machine . . .
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Forks Over Knives: A Revolutionary Documentary About Food
Gilda Rogers
Call it a movement or an alternative lifestyle, but one thing's for sure, it's in motion and it's building steam among the young and old. This was evident by the 200 plus people who turned out Thursday night to see the documentary, "Forks over Knives," at the Clearview Cinema in Red Bank. . . .
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Summer Gardening Tips
by Michael J. McGroarty
Along with summer time comes high humidity. High humidity can cause a lot of problems with the plants in your garden and around your house. One of the simple things you can do is don't water just before dark. Make sure your plants are nice and dry when you tuck them in for the night and you can cut down of the chance fungus being a problem. . . .
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Spring Planting Tips
by Michael J. McGroarty
Spring means that the garden centers are packed with people, and car trunks are packed with plants. Everybody has dirt on their knees, dirt under their nails, and are excited about gardening. To make certain that this excitement yields positive results, let's discuss the basics in this article of spring planting tips. . . .
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Weed Control Facts, Winning the Battle of the Weeds
by, Michael J. McGroarty
Keeping your landscape plantings, flower beds, and nursery crops free of weeds is a battle, but if you approach it with a strategic plan, you will prevail. In order to develop a plan, you first must understand how weeds work, and what kind of weeds you are dealing with. . . .
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Organic Weed Control Using Corn
Kathy Anderson
Corn gluten works by preventing germinated seeds from growing a root. A plant that has already grown roots will not be affected by corn gluten. For the best results, the corn gluten should be applied early in the season, before the weed seeds germinate and grow roots. As a pre-emergent herbicide, corn gluten tends to have a cumulative effect and becomes even more effective on weed seeds with repeated applications over time. . . .
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Saving Seeds From Your Garden
Kathy Anderson
For many gardeners, the garden actually begins in January when the first seed catalog arrives in the mailbox. While the cold wind howls outside, we retire to a cozy chair and leaf through the catalog, carefully notating which varieties of lettuce and tomatoes to try and wishing we had the space to plant each and every flower so artfully displayed on its pages. . . .
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Prune and Trellis Your Tomato Plants To Achieve Higher Yields
Kathy Anderson
For many home gardeners, the tomato crop is often a source of pride. Gardeners often compete to see who can grow the earliest ripe fruit, the biggest or most flavorful tomato. The desire for perfect tomatoes sends many gardeners to their local garden centers in search of the latest potions or products that promise to help them achieve their goals. . . .
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Let's Grow Some Potatoes
Kathy Anderson
You may have heard old timers say that potatoes should always be planted on Good Friday. This old wives' tale is absolutely absurd. Good Friday does not fall on the same calendar date each year and can fall anywhere from early March to mid April. If folks in New England or the upper Midwest tried to plant potatoes on Good Friday, many years they'd be digging through rock-hard soil that was still frozen solid. . . .
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