About 60 vendors and hundreds of customers turned out Saturday for this season's first day, buying and selling home-gown, home-baked, hand-gathered and handcrafted items from dolls and jewelry to cinnamon rolls and tomato plants. Customers on Saturday were eager to shop the market for the first time this year. Meeting old friends and seeing people support local growers and craftspeople at the market is rewarding, she said. People could come to the market to buy hanging baskets and flowers...

Traditional British vegetables could lose their place on the nation's plates because of climate change, farmers are warning. Parts of Britain received no rain while East Anglia, where much of the country's vegetable cultivation is centred, had only 2.2 mm, 5 per cent of the average rainfall for the month. However, with only 60 per cent of vegetable fields having irrigation systems, some farmers have called a halt to planting. In the long term, far fewer traditional vegetables, which...

Gardeners in other areas may be just starting to get their beds ready for planting -- or in many parts of the Midwest, waiting for floodwaters to recede -- but the first hot day in California sends me into a frenzy, convinced that I'm missing the peak growing days because every bed isn't planted out. April ended with cold showers and May opened with spring winds, warm but gusting to more than 30 mph, and it seemed prudent that the plants stay safely ensconced in the greenhouse. Gardeners...

In a report published Monday, Co-operative Insurance calls on the companies in which it invests to tackle the problems associated with biofuels, saying it plans to "engage with companies and seek reassurance that they will put strategies in place to mitigate the risks" In a report published Monday, Co-operative Insurance calls on the companies in which it invests to tackle the problems associated with biofuels, saying it plans to "engage with companies and seek reassurance that they will...

Governor Daisy Avance-Fuentes, PDC chair, said they approved the proposed intensified vegetable seeds production project as part of their continuing efforts to improve the province's agricultural sector. Provincial Agriculturist Reynaldo Legaste said the intensified vegetable seeds production project primarily aims to produce 670 kilos of vegetable seeds such as ampalaya, eggplant, squash, upo, pole sitao, okra, cowpea and patola. She said the vegetable seeds production project will...