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CHI Publishing
March 16, 2009
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Gone are the days when buying organic fruit meant that you had to settle for very few choices. Today, the availability is better than ever, with major grocery chains now stocking organic fruit and showing strong, consistent sales growth. It´s obvious that when given a choice...
CHI Publishing
March 16, 2009
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"Say it ain´t so!" But it´s happening and the consumer needs to be aware and "get mad as hell" about it. Shall we blame it on the farmer? The breeder? The wholesaler? The retailer? Or how about the consumer? I say all the above and a little greed to go along with each.
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CHI Publishing
February 20, 2009
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There has been a dramatic increase in interest in organic food - and organic fruit and produce are more popular than ever. Major grocery chains have jumped on the bandwagon and many have entire section of organic fruit and produce available. It´s great that organic fruit an...
CHI Publishing
February 20, 2009
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Who cares who grows your apples, pears or cherries? Maybe not you personally, but what about your loved ones? Sometimes us guys get so wrapped ...
CHI Publishing
February 20, 2009
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Why are our eyes drawn to the redder apples? Think again when you select the reddest apple in the bin. The red color development in apples is due to formation of red pigments, anthocyanins. The synthesis of these pigments occurs when light shines directly on the fruit.
T...
CHI Publishing
January 06, 2009
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Apples are an amazing health food and we need to make the most of them. Peeling your organic apple is a nutritional mistake - as significant parts of the health benefits of apples come from the skin. With organic apples, you don´t need to worry about the possible contaminati...
CHI Publishing
January 06, 2009
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Pesticides have their place in conventional farming to control insects that damage crops. Conventional farmers generally try to minimize the use of pesticides due to the eventual contamination of the crop and the costs involved with the chemicals and the labor to apply the pe...
CHI Publishing
January 06, 2009
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There has been a dramatic increase in interest in organic food - and organic fruit and produce are more popular than ever. Major grocery chains have jumped on the bandwagon and many have entire section of organic fruit and produce available. There are many reasons you shoul...
CHI Publishing
January 06, 2009
www.myECOfarmer.com
Apples – especially organic apples - are a great food and a healthy snack. Each apple contains around 80 calories is very low in sodium and has zero saturated fat and cholesterol. It is also an excellent source of dietary fiber and vitamin C.
In fact, apples are one of th...
CHI Publishing
January 06, 2009
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The apple in the Unites States has come a long way from 1620, when Pilgrims brought over the first apples. The United States now produces approximately one-third of the world's crop. There are more than 7,000 varieties classified in the United States, although most commercia...
CHI Publishing
January 06, 2009
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Recently my business partner and I (EARTH CONSCIOUS ORGANICS) were invited to give a presentation after a viewing of the film THE FUTURE OF FOOD. The event was held at the University of Washington campus in Seattle Washington to educate and inspire the em...
CHI Publishing
January 05, 2009
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To begin with I´d like to ask you a question. Your answer might leave you wondering. How does it make you feel to know that the apples I send you are the same apples I feed to my children? How does that compare to feeding your children apples that you have purchased at the gro...
CHI Publishing
January 05, 2009
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This time of year comes fall harvest…the most intense time of year for the apple farmers of North Central Washington State. I like to call it ´SHOWTIME´!! All the blood we´ve been bleeding, sweat we´ve been sweating and tears we´ve been crying are hanging from those tree limbs...
CHI Publishing
January 05, 2009
myECOfarmer.com
On weekends my wife and I like to travel to Seattle to let our customers sample our organic harvests. We grab our knives and labels and roll that sample table out to the front of the store or where ever the display is of our organic apples or cherries. Once the apples are sliced i...