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Could rising prices feed appetite for gardens?

Food Bytes

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 | 07:47 AM ET
by Amber Hildebrandt, CBCNews.ca

Call it the zero-mile diet. Call it a victory garden. Even call it a potager if you want to sound chic. 

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Perfect peppers

St. David's Hydroponics grows them for shipment across North America
By Lynn Ogryzlo, Just a Taste
Columns: May 30, 2008 

They harvest about 75 kilos of giant, perfect peppers each week. St. David's Hydroponics is a whopping 17 1/2 acres of agricultural activity under glass -- and it's hot. As I walked through the thousands of eight-foot tall pepper plants, workers were harvesting red peppers. Huge trailers full and overflowing with glistening, beautiful peppers were being wheeled into the packaging area to be sorted by size and packaged by weight. Boxes were piled high, waiting for shipment to grocery stores that would offer these tasty peppers within 24 hours of being picked. Now that's fresh!  

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Confused consumers question tomato safety

From Wednesday's Globe and Mail

A widespread outbreak of salmonella food poisoning linked to raw tomatoes in the United States is creating confusion and chaos for consumers in Canada who are questioning whether the products available here are safe.

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Newsflash

 Source: ocolly.com

Publication date: 5/21/2008

Hydroponics and aquaponic technologies are an attractive solution for some agricultural woes, and the future of hydroponics appears more positive today than any time in the past. Locally, that technology is being used by Dave Inselman of Kygar Road Market. Agritourism has become an expanding sector of the agriculture market and Inselman’s hydro and aquaponic greenhouses fit the bill.

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