Tag Archive for: Fruit

Momordica, or Bittermelon
Arkansas Black apples
blake's pride pear
peaches
Loquat

Native and Naturalized Plants of South Texas for Urban Food Forests

I'm a Californian born and raised, so writing a blog about native and naturalized South Texas plants is one thing I never thought I'd do. But this spring I got the opportunity to go to Texas for an entire month, to work on an urban agroforestry project, and during that time I fell in love with its amazing native and naturalized plants.
Katherine Favor, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist
Unsprayed Carman grapes

Grapes in High Tunnels Can Greatly Reduce Pesticide Use and Increase Yields

As a young, would-be organic farmer in the early 1970s, I drooled over the nursery catalog photographs of plump, succulent bunches of grapes as if they were the very essence and promise of good farming and good health. The genus containing grapes is Vitis, a word from the proto-Indo-European root, which means “living or life itself.” Wow. Grapes=life itself!
By Guy K. Ames, NCAT Horticulture Specialist

Tag Archive for: Fruit

Momordica, or Bittermelon
Arkansas Black apples
blake's pride pear
peaches
Loquat

Native and Naturalized Plants of South Texas for Urban Food Forests

I'm a Californian born and raised, so writing a blog about native and naturalized South Texas plants is one thing I never thought I'd do. But this spring I got the opportunity to go to Texas for an entire month, to work on an urban agroforestry project, and during that time I fell in love with its amazing native and naturalized plants.
Katherine Favor, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist
Unsprayed Carman grapes

Grapes in High Tunnels Can Greatly Reduce Pesticide Use and Increase Yields

As a young, would-be organic farmer in the early 1970s, I drooled over the nursery catalog photographs of plump, succulent bunches of grapes as if they were the very essence and promise of good farming and good health. The genus containing grapes is Vitis, a word from the proto-Indo-European root, which means “living or life itself.” Wow. Grapes=life itself!
By Guy K. Ames, NCAT Horticulture Specialist