A Beautiful Sight, Melons Are Finally Here!

I was getting ready to hand pollinate the melon flowers when I found a few surprises hiding beneath the foliage.

Reading Round Up: Vitamin Donuts Edition

Innovative pizza vending machine really delivers

Lunch: An Urban Invention

Antibiotic-Free Meat Map Launched for Consumers

Poll: Americans Don't Want Antibiotics in Their Meat

Fake meat: is science fiction on the verge of becoming fact?

Vitamin Donuts, WWII

Too Good to Last

Reading Round Up: Yam Edition

Eeeek!: Cooked squid inseminates woman’s “tongue, cheek and gums”

Bronx could get biggest rooftop farm in the world under Bloomberg administration plan

I Think, Therefore I Yam: When farmland is scarce, will we all eat roots and tubers?

Growing Power CEO Explains Urban Farming To Stephen Colbert

This Is the Food We'll Eat on Mars

A Budget-Friendly Guide to Organic Fertilizer and Soil Amendments

More First Fruits

The garden is steadily growing. The recent cool, wet  weather has kept me extra vigilant for signs of disease, but so far nothing has appeared. Let's hope it stays that way!

Reading Round Up: Milkmaid Edition

Milkmaid smart jug texts you when the milk goes bad

PBS Video - Food Forward: Urban Farming

Speedy gardening: Quick-ripening vegetables you'll love

Mushroom processing machine

Poor and fat: The real class war

First Fruit 2012

The garden is doing very well. So far there have been no signs of disease and minimal signs of insect pests.

Reading Round Up: Space Bread Edition

How to bake bread in space

The future of food: Five frontiers

Dangerous foods - don't eat these at home

A Genetic Cure for Tomato Rot

Tomato Genome Gets Fully Sequenced -- Paves Way to Healthier Fruits, Veggies