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Coffee quarantine proposal comes under fire | West Hawaii Today

The Hawaii Department of Agriculture wants a permanent quarantine to prevent the spread of coffee berry borer, evident by its proposal available until today for comment. However, some Kona coffee growers are questioning the motives behind the proposed amendments, particularly …

Taking a crack at roasting coffee beans at home - latimes.com

Raw coffee beans get the do-it-yourself treatment as java aficionados jump at the chance to roast their own blend. Four students are standing over a hot stove in the creamery of the Institute of Domestic Technology on a late-October Sunday at the Zane Grey Estate in Altadena.

EB1640 Growing Small Fruits for the Home Garden

FOOD:  AVAILABLE TO ALL!

What's the Deal With Heritage Turkeys?

Turkey Day is right around the corner (we're pretty excited for that Tryptophan-induced nap that we all enjoy after stuffing our faces), and heritage turkeys are quickly becoming the talk of the town. You may be wondering what the deal is with these birds.

Foodies, Get Thee to Occupy Wall Street

The food industry is a big fat monopoly. Agribusiness is concentrated to a point that would make a Wall Street master of the universe blush. Vast globe-spanning corporations, many of them US-based, dominate the industry.

Buddhist Channel | Buddhism News, Headlines | Personality | Steve Jobs' Mantra Rooted in Buddhism: Focus and Simplicity

San Francisco, CA (USA) -- Long before Steve Jobs became the CEO of Apple and one of the most recognizable figures on the planet, he took a unconventional route to find himself -- a spiritual journey that influenced every step of an unconventional career.

Kona Coffee Farmers Association obtains agreement from Safeway to correct mis-labeled coffee!!!

August 31, 2011 Mr. Colehour BonderaPresidentKona Coffee Farmers AssociationP.O. Box 5436Kailua Kona, Hawaii 96745 Dear Mr.

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King Corn Takes Root in Hawaii - NYTimes.com

On a furrowed hillside suspended between alternate takes on paradise, with rugged, green mountains above and the placid waters of Pearl Harbor below, Hawaii's plantation legacy is constantly re-emerging. The debris is a minor annoyance, however, for the farm's new owner, Monsan …

As Farmers' Markets Boom, Some See a Glut in the Making - NYTimes.com

John Spineti started selling plump tomatoes and shiny squash at farmers’ markets in the early 1970s and saw his profits boom as markets became more popular. But just as farmers’ markets have become mainstream, Mr.

Drug Resistance in Food — Coming From Aquaculture? | Wired Science | Wired.com

In the midst of the giant Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak last week — now up to 107 cases in 31 states, and triggering a recall of 36 million pounds of ground turkey — it was easy to miss that a second and even more troubling strain of resistant Salmonella is on the mo …

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