Welcome to everybody’s favorite gameshow, Fruit…Or…Veggie! Okay, it’s not a real gameshow, but as you’ll see, it could be. We all know what we think is a fruit and what’s a vegetable. Pretty clear, right? Wrong. Sure you probably know about a tomato — everybody knows that even though it seems like...
Sometimes there is not a cutesy way or shock factor to lead into a Behind-The-Scenes -- not every story's like that and this, my friends, is one of those. The adjectives I will use are beautiful, a bit mind-blowing, and a surprise ending doesn’t hurt either. I know, kind of a strange combination...
Ah, New Jersey my home state. Unfortunately, it is often underrated and most people just think of the city of Newark. Actually, pretty sad.But I can’t forget the gorgeous beaches, farms and rolling hills. Honestly, I really miss it and after many years still get homesick.New Jersey is called the...
Josh Johnson has tried a little bit of everything at his Old Tyme Bean Co. and farming operation in South Carolina. He drew the line at edamame — hard to spell, hard to grow. But like basketball great Michael Jordan says, failure breeds champions.
Everything old is new again. South Carolina's Josh Johnson grows classic favorites like purple hull peas and speckled butter beans at his Old Tyme Bean Co. But it's how he farms as much as what he farms that makes him special. Johnson is part of a new wave in farming called regenerative...
Salmonella, Staphylococcus aureus, and Campylobacter are all really big names with pretty pictures – you can see them below. Don’t let those pretty pictures fool you. So why are they in this article and what do they have in common? They are some of the bacteria which can cause food poisoning,...
Sometimes food safety can be less about what's in or out of what you're eating and more about what you're used to eating. As Dr. Francisco Diez-Gonzalez from the University of Georgia Center for Food Safety explains, different organisms make different people sick. And a lot of that has to do with...
You've heard it your whole life — if you drop food, it's still clean and edible as long as you pick it up within 5 seconds. ACK! Nope, not true. Not even remotely, as we found out at the University of Georgia Center for Food Safety, which is part of the College of Agricultural and Environmental...
Urban, suburban and rural areas are concepts we don’t often think about. But for the sake of humoring me and this article, let's do think about it -- and let’s talk about the differences. Urban areas are cities and the surrounding areas. They have a greater population density and more people in...
Cows are cute and they're great friends to us — but they're not the best-smelling animals in the world. You will usually know you're approaching a dairy farm long before you actually get there. Not at M&B Dairies in Lecanto, FL, which bottles its milk as M&B Products in Temple Terrace, FL,...
