Kluth and her family sample a number of recipes as they search for ones to use in the brochure they give to customers at their Glendale Farms strawberry patch near Clintonville. It means a great deal of work on the farm, but it's also the time of year when he gets strawberry shortcake for breakfast. Strawberry picking season starts in mid-June, and growers expect a stellar crop. Picking the berries is often as much a social event as it is a way to put fresh fruit on the table. There were a...

Hobby farm is crop of future FFA members hear about new 'lifestyle' Thursday, June 7th 2007 By Melinda Green . Special to the Journal The future of agriculture is in small acreages raising specialty produce or animals, and offering value-added products, Dennis Hillyer of Southwest Ag of Bayfield told students at the annual state FFA convention Wednesday. Hobby farm is crop of future FFA members hear about new 'lifestyle' Thursday, June 7th 2007 By Melinda Green . Special to the Journal The...

Homeowner's citrus tree is infested with leafminers and orange dog caterpillars. You can crush the caterpillars if there are too many, spray with Thuricide (a disease that kills only caterpillars), or better yet, leave them alone and enjoy the butterflies. There is no effective treatment you can use on fruit trees to control this pest. Let natural enemies control citrus pests. Neither of these pests will kill the tree but young citrus plants should be protected by removing the...

SAN FRANCISCO - Full grown, the light brown apple moth is roughly the size of a nickel: a little dirt-colored insect with an adult life span shorter than the average summer vacation. As a caterpillar, the moth feeds on flowers, fruits and firs, a diet that can include corn and tomatoes for dinner and cherries, peaches and plums for dessert. A native of Australia, the moth had never been seen in the continental United States before February, when a retired entomologist discovered one in a...

Sunday, July 01, 2007 BY RYAN LUCAS Associated Press LOMIANKI, Poland -- Under a row of pine trees in his yard, Karol Majewski brushes needles off green-tinted seven-gallon glass jugs filled with sweet cherries, apricots and fir shoots steeping in alcohol. Sunday, July 01, 2007 BY RYAN LUCAS Associated Press LOMIANKI, Poland -- Under a row of pine trees in his yard, Karol Majewski brushes needles off green-tinted seven-gallon glass jugs filled with sweet cherries, apricots and fir shoots...