If you’re anything like me, the COVID-19 pandemic has left you with a lot of extra time around the house. For me and many others, this has meant diving into hobbies such as gardening.
This is a new hobby for me and as everything is seemingly ripening at the
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Editor’s note: Each Spring, attorneys Bill Marler and Denis Stearns teach a Food Safety Litigation course in the LL.M. Program in Agricultural and Food Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law. This specialized program for attorneys brings together those who are interested in our food system, from
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Researchers have suggested guidance in the United Kingdom should be revised because it does not recognize how lead is stored in soil and transferred to vegetables.
Recent years have seen a rise in popularity of people growing their own fruit and vegetables, but many urban allotments have soil with lead
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A Garden for Every Child. Every Child in a Garden.”
U.S. slogan for WWI youth gardening program
Spring is almost over, and with summer looming, people’s thoughts are turning to gardening. It’s no different with children. School and youth gardens are popping up all over.
In most of the United
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This time of year people who enjoy gardening are thinking about and planning what they will be growing this spring, summer and fall. I know this because I am one of those who has already purchased some of my seeds, and planting time is still a ways off yet. Many
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The bounty of a home garden is for sharing with family and friends, and South Dakotans are soon going to be asked to think of raw milk in much the same way. New South Dakota safety regulations are being re-written to apply only when raw milk is sold commercially for
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For home gardeners, spring is a busy time of year and there’s never a tomato with more flavor than one grown to full ripeness on the vine. But there are also many safety precautions to follow to prevent contamination of fruits and vegetables with pathogens that cause serious foodborne illness.
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In the form of a beguiling tall stranger, death lurked in my garden last year. This spring, it reappeared, but this time much closer to the house. I only discovered its identity when, by chance, I bumped into a photo of this stranger while reading some news about the Pacific
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In 1864, when Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman conducted his famous March to the Sea, splitting George apart like a ripe peach, his troops lived totally off the bounty of the land.
Sherman’s Union army, marching without supplies, did not want for anything, while up north the Army of Virginia
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As gardeners bring fresh produce indoors, questions of food safety may not be on their minds. Here is the hard-earned product of carefully nursed seedlings, plenty of mulching, watering and endless weeding. Tomatoes, zucchini, spinach and Swiss chard: if you grew these foods, you made be too blinded by pride
