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Making Sherbet with Homegrown Strawberries
If I’m going to eat something with sugar and dairy in it, it may as well be made with high quality ingredients, in other words, homegrown and homemade. Try this easy three step sherbet recipe for amazing berry flavor.
How to Freeze Strawberries
Nothing screams summer like lots of delicious berries, in my opinion. But what if, in your heat-fueled berry-picking fervor, you end up with way more berries than you’ll ever eat? You can make them into jam, sure, but sometimes you just want to put up those straight berries without the extra sugar so you can use them later in baking and in smoothies, right?
Grow Strawberries for More Flavor
Have you noticed that those big, bright, beautiful strawberries at the grocery store stop being so impressive when you bite into them? Here’s why, and it’s all the more reason to grow strawberries yourself!
Food Fact: Methyl Iodide
More than 50 scientists, inluding 5 Nobel laureates, called methyl iodide “one of the more toxic chemicals used in manufacturing.” The fumigant is still legal and used in many conventional strawberry fields.
Update: California Strawberries and Methyl Iodide
About a month ago, Jeannie posted an eye-opening piece on California’s approval of the toxic soil fumigant, methyl iodide for growing strawberries. It caused a bit of a stir, both in the comments and on Facebook, and one reader reached out to let me know that she’d contacted one strawberry company to see if they were using methyl iodide on their fields.
Maybe Think Twice before Buying Strawberries from California
With strawberry season coming up, it’s worth it to bring up that California has controversially approved methyl iodide – a rather nasty pesticide – for use. California grows a very large percentage on fruits and vegetables for the US, and strawberries are maybe one of the most noteworthy. Here’s why.
Organic Strawberry Farms Found to have Better Fruit and Soil
Recent (unbiased) research has shown that organic strawberries are more flavorful, healthful and better for the soil.
Best Fruits! Top 10 According to Readers
Top 10 Fruits, as chosen by our readers.
Stop California From Approving Carcinogen in Strawberry Production
The California Department of Pesticide Regulation is close to approving the use of methyl iodide in strawberry production. The toxic chemical is a soil fumigant, which means it would be [ … ]
Strawberries (In Season Now)
[social_buttons] Strawberries have just come into season here in Poland. The first batch or two we got weren’t great, but they are getting very good again now. (Last year’s may [ … ]
Pesticides That Buy Time
[social_buttons] This is the third in a series of posts talking about crop-by-crop reasons that pesticides are used. These are reasons that go beyond just protecting the yield of the [ … ]
Tainted Produce in Poor Neighborhoods
[social_buttons] Not only do low-income neighborhoods have less access to fresh produce, but the rare fruit or veggie found in these areas is also more likely to be tainted. A [ … ]