About Us The Catanduanes Tribune. The Provincial Agricultural Services Office (PASO) has launched a comprehensive seeds distribution project in all 11 towns of Catanduanes as part of its continuing efforts to rehabilitate the agricultural sector and provide the impetus towards vegetable production and backyard gardening. About Us The Catanduanes Tribune. About Us The Catanduanes Tribune. The Provincial Agricultural Services Office (PASO) has launched a comprehensive seeds distribution...

Many of the vegetables, flowers and craft vendors in the morning could have booths at the evening market, but Heim said the night event will "be quite different than the morning market. The year-round night market will have a more festive feel than the existing morning market and will feature numerous craft booths, hot meals and live entertainment, according to organizers. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, it wasn't just her record of prosecutions that led to her ouster but more whom she was...

Carlsbad Current-Argus - Massachusetts schools join national trend in stocking cafeterias with local produce. But meals being dished out in the country's college dining halls and grade-school cafeterias are getting tastier and more nutritious thanks to a growing number of programs that encourage local farmers to sell their crops directly to schools. Clark is one of about a dozen colleges in the state participating in the Massachusetts Farm to School Project, a three-year-old program that...

The extensive publicity and the back-to-back timing of the contaminations could paint a misleading picture, said Jim Rushing, a Clemson University horticulture professor who works to maintain the safety of food from South Carolina's fruit-and-vegetable industry. But Shuler estimates she spent 20 minutes on the organic and health food aisle on a shopping trip this week at Bi-Lo "to see what the organic craze was all about. In the past eight months, consumers have been inundated with...

Manure sales are up, as more grain and vegetable farmers turn to animal waste as an alternative to higher-priced commercial fertilizer, say state agriculture regulators. The market also has grown because of the emergence of large livestock farms, which generate an abundant supply of manure. Stricter environmental regulations have nudged some livestock farmers into the manure market. The price of nitrogen fertilizer, for example, has more than doubled in the past four years, in part because...