If it’s the dead of winter, where are you going to get your fresh fruits and vegetables? In many cases, you can thank desert farming. Throughout the low desert of California’s Imperial and Coachella Valleys, the crops flourish in wintertime. Farming in the Coachella Valley To many people, the Coachella Valley conjures an image of […]
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Real Food: Winter Salad Bowl
What’s in your salad bowl? Where do the country’s families, grocery stores, restaurants, and food services get their leafy greens in the dead of winter? And where do those warm and dry regions get their water to grow those crops? We got the answers to those questions and more last week while on a farm […]
Real Food: The Peach Picking and Packing Process
Peaches are a summer favorite, but unless you have your own peach tree you have to rely on farmers to get peaches to you. How does the commercial peach picking process work? Given that California grows 70 percent of U.S.-grown fresh peaches and 93 percent of fresh nectarines and plums, we thought we should learn. […]
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