Tag: "crops"

Reporter's Notes: Backyard Seed Banks

Reporter's Notes: Backyard Seed Banks

Today, most backyard gardeners opt for buying seed packets or seedlings at the garden store. But a handful of Bay Area groups are working to create local seed saving networks, where local gardeners can learn to save seeds and share them.

 
Lauren Sommer

Post on Sep 17, 2010 by

Stamping out the Apple Moth

Stamping out the Apple Moth

A tiny moth, new to California, is at the center of a controversy pitting state officials against Bay Area residents and politicians. The Light Brown Apple Moth is seen as a threat to California crops. Now the State Department of Food and Agriculture is planning to spray a synthetic hormone over Bay Area neighborhoods this [...]

 
Andrea Kissack

Post on Mar 06, 2008 by