Topic: Fruits and Vegetables

Recreate the Obama White House Vegetable Garden--Online

We learned last week that the Obama's are working on a 1,100-square-foot White House vegetable garden to be cared for by local fifth graders and the first family. Now web-based vegetable-garden design application Plangarden has ...READ»

• New Appointment: White House Farmer?

Roof Top Gardens

Peter, your query on Roof Top Gardens: Yokogawa Electric Asia in Singapore maintains a roof-top hydroponics garden. Here employees are allowed to grow their own vegetables like tomatoes, rock melon, cucumber for home consumption, ...READ»

Here's to the Holidays!

Raise a glass to the New Year -- and to the drinks that bring it in with style. Master chefs and masterly wine experts create new concoctions and select old favorites.READ»

Watermelons: The Sweetest Ethanol Source Around

Ethanol is commonly produced from crops like corn, switchgrass, sugar cane and sweet sorghum. But the next big ethanol crop might the ultimate summer fruit: Watermelon. A 20-pound watermelon can yield 1.4 pounds of sugar, which can ...READ»

From an Old-Fashioned Bank to an Heirloom Seed Bank

From the crumbling ashes of the fallen financial system rises a new type of bank: one for heirloom seeds. It sounds like the beginning of a post-apocalyptic novel, but it's really happening in Petaluma, California, where an abandoned ...READ»

Rumor Mill: Vegetables from the White House Garden to be Sold at DC Farmer's Market

Ten years ago, few people could have imagined that the First Family would rip up part of the White House lawn and plant a vegetable garden. But that's exactly what happened in March, when Michelle Obama started work on a 1,100 ...READ»

Carb Up, Stress Down

Judith Wurtman's stress-management diet.READ»

My New Sideline Business: Organic Agriculture

I grew up in New York City. I think I knew one family who had a garden, and they lived in a then-rural part of northern Yonkers. Even those others of my parents' friends who'd moved out to the suburbs got their veggies in the ...READ»

The Superfruits Are Coming

Bored with blueberries? Passing on pomegranates? Marketers are pushing a new generation of exotic, good-for-you flavors.READ»

Prevent Hearing Loss by Eating these Foods in Miami

No matter what may think, if you are in the presence of too much loud noise, you WILL eventually lose your hearing. However, there are certain nutrients you can eat to help maintain your current state of hearing. -Magnesium: In a ...READ»

New Appointment: White House Farmer? [updated]

Leaders of the new food culture say rip up the South Lawn and plant a vegetable garden. Is this the beginning of the recessionary Victory Garden?READ»

Bike Pedaling Gardeners Water Vegeatabes and Fruits at Britain's Chelsea Flower Show

Bikes rigged to provide power for laptops, TVs, and other electronics are nothing new, but the water-recycling garden uses pedal-power for a different purpose: watering plants. The water-recycling garden, currently on display at ...READ»

A Mix Master's Swizzle Tips

These toddies offer a refreshing way to celebrate.READ»

Roll-Out Veg Mat Makes Gardening a Mindless Task

How many more people would start backyard gardens if they didn't have to spend time and energy on the set-up process? Probably a lot--at least, that's what designer Chris Chapman hopes to prove with his Roll-Out Veg ...READ»

Catering to the Masses

Levy Restaurants knows how to feed a crowd--with discipline, a helping of creativity, and, as needed, a dash of resilience. Plus the occasional lasagna.READ»

NPL's Robot Finds Ripe Vegetables, Harvests Them

Remember that roll-out vegetable mat we looked at this week? Turns out it makes harvesting fruits and vegetables look like hard work compared to the National Physical Laboratory's (NPL) intelligent harvesting machine. The proposed ...READ»

Fashion Jewellery: jewellery's today and future

All most well-known fashion  jewellery-houses are introduced in every largest contemporary world?S money, and their number is still increasing. Celebrities and movie-stars, who regularly grow in the reports, promote not at all ...READ»

Next Week: Sportacus Takes on Krispy Kreme Man

Combine Teletubbies with Thighmasters and you get LazyTown, the popular TV show that gets kids up off the couch.READ»

Precious fashion jewellery today and forever

All most well-known fashion jewellery-houses are introduced in every leading contemporary world?S money, and their number is still increasing. Celebrities and movie-stars, who regularly surface in the gossip, promote not at all their ...READ»

Pretty and Tasty Edible Flowers

Pretty and Tasty Edible Flowers Edible flowers - what comes to mind when you think about it? You'll probably think of the little colored candy flowers on cakes that are mostly made from sugar and egg whites. Flowers aren't just ...READ»

Work/Life: Some Spitting Distance on Work/Life Balance

Anyone in need of a little perspective on their overworked lives, get yourself to Luling, Texas this weekend, for the 54th annual Watermelon Thump. This is a four-day event, and among the highlights are a watermelon eating contest, ...READ»

A Farming Fairy Tale

Imagine that you could wave a wand--and make all our food organic.READ»

Intelligent RFID Sensors Keep Rotten Produce Out of Grocery Stores

How many times have you walked into the produce section of the supermarket, only to find that the fruits and vegetables sitting there are all over-ripe? It's a common problem, and one that produces billions of dollars worth of food ...READ»

"Far Foods" Guilts Grocery Shoppers Into Buying Local

It's easy to buy strawberries and plums in February if you don't think about the thousands of miles they traveled to land on grocery store shelves. James Reynold's "Far Foods" concept makes it more difficult to ignore by placing ...READ»

Now You're Really Cooking!

Take eight people who love to cook, mix with one master chef, and season with the chef's take-aways. What do you get? The inner secret of preparing an unforgettable four-course dinner.READ»