Tag: Apples - Page 2
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Wild Progenitors of Domestic Fruit & Nut Trees in Central Asia Threatened with Extinction
There's a , and now trees in Central Asia have theirs as well. The
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12 Fruits with the Most Pesticides (Slideshow)
"Eat organic," you hear, over and over again. But it can be tough to find organic versions of your favorite fruits and vegetables all the time, so, how do you know which are most important to eat organic?
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12 Fruits with the Most Pesticides
Peaches top the list of most pesticide-ridden fruits, with some combination of up to 53 pesticides found on all the peaches in the study...yikes. With their relatively thin skin, peeling and washing can only do so much, so this one tops the list of fruits
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Is That Juicy Peach Poisonous? EWG Dishes Out Their Updated Dirty Dozen List
The Dirty Dozen is back. No, we're not talking about the movie—it's the recently released, fifth edition of The Environmental Working Group's (EWG) list of the 12 conventionally grown fruits and veggies with the
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Frugal, Organic, Sugarfree - What More Could A Dessert Want to Be?
Deep from the innards of the TreeHugger test kitchen (ok, there's no TH test kitchen, just the hordes of us hungry bloggers trying to keep both budget and taste buds happy) emerges a new, quick, and decidedly healthy everyday
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Backyard Fruit Trees A Barely Tapped Resource For Urban Gleaning
Victory gardens have come back ever bigger - garden magazines and home gardening tools sales are good even in this recessionary economy. The harvest season is almost upon us, and an extension of that urban victory garden idea is to glean the fruit (and
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The early bird gets the iPhone. And also gets media attention for an organic farm at the White House
You may have heard that the iPhone 3G went on sale this morning. I saw a line outside of the AT&T; stores here in Manhattan, and I heard there was a line around the block this morning at the Union Street Apple store in San
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Prince Charles Saves Britain's Apples
We have applauded Prince Charles before for his willingness to spend massive amounts of money on green causes. And now HRH has done it again. He has purchased 1,000 of the rarest British apple varieties. So have Geoffrey Anderton, who owns Lochnaw
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A Picture is Worth...Homemade Applesauce
Yum...there's nothing like homemade applesauce. It always tastes better when you've made it yourself. Our question is: How many food miles will this DIY job add?
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Recipe of the Week: It's still October. Bake an Apple Pie!
I was reading an apple pie recipe by Food Network chef Michael Smith in my newspaper the other day. I've made a few of Smith's recipes before and I've liked them. The recipe for the crust intrigued me because
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Transition City Bristol to Plant a Virtual Orchard
We’ve reported on Transition City Bristol before, one of the first city-wide Transition Town initiatives [Disclaimer: This author has good friends involved in the project, but we’d be writing about it even if we didn’t]. It looks like things are
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Apple Days
It's autumn and the celebration of apple harvests is taking place across the land. Time to enjoy the multitude of local varieties available, and take part in Apple Day on October 21. This year's theme is conserving orchards and creating community
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Variety Comes Back to the Supermarket
In Michael Pollan's Botany of Desire, we learned how apples are propagated, and how the formerly Delicious apple came to have its absolutely uniform beauty and be absolutely devoid of flavour. Yet in most stores, that is all you can find, or perhaps a
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Scallop Shells: Coming to An Icy Road Near You?
Though it may not make much difference in the Northwest Passage or Arctic ice cap (wink, wink) there are still many of us who will have to drive on icy roads this upcoming winter. The side effects of using salt to melt the ice (a fairly common
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An Apple a Day Keeps the Gas Pump Away
A team of scientists led by James Dumesic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has discovered a way (subscription needed) to turn the sugar commonly found in fruits like apples and oranges into a biofuel with 40% greater energy density than ethanol.
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Oxygen Tweak Could Lower Cost of Organic Produce
Hanker for more organic produce but feeling pinched in the wallet by the oft-higher prices? Well, help may finally be on the way: Lisa Richards reports in the current issue of Chemistry & Industry that scientists from the Volcani Center in Israel have
