Sentences with phrase «grown lettuce on»

We are downing squashes, peppers, corn and home - grown lettuce on an almost daily basis.

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If they want to buy romaine lettuce from now on, they should first check with the store or restaurant that it wasn't grown in the Yuma region, the agencies said.

Blue River says that its devices are capable of reducing by up to 90 percent the chemicals farmers use, and that they are currently operating on 10 percent of the lettuce grown in the U.S.

First Lady Michelle Obama's 1,100 square foot vegetable garden was planted in 2009 on the White House's South Lawn and grows arugula, cilantro, tomatillo, hot peppers, spinach, chard, collards, black kale, berries, lettuce, anise hyssop, and Thai basil.

An update issued on Friday, however, says customers should also avoid whole heads and hearts of romaine, in addition to chopped lettuce, unless they can determine that it was not grown in Yuma.

Food producers are now required to indicate where animals were born and raised on their packaging, but mobile apps can provide so much more detail into where your meat came from, what chemicals are used in the fields that grew your lettuce and whether the products were sourced locally.

I tossed this gorgeous dressing on home grown lettuce.

Antonio Russo initially sold fresh tomatoes, lettuce and beans he had grown on a small plot of farmland at the marketplace of Boston's historic Faneuil Hall in the 1920s.

Since I have SO much kale growing in the garden I served it on top of shredded Russian Kale however, you can serve on top of Romaine lettuce instead.

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I will fill in the gaps with lots of greens, baby lettuces that I'm growing on my deck, roasted beets, fresh pineapple salsa, roasted green beans, peppers, cherry tomatoes, zucchini noodles and Brussel's sprouts.

A similar story of farming is simultaneously going on in the North Ohio - Michigan area, where other vegetables (carrots, lettuce, parsley, beets, and celery) are being grown on second - and third - generation family farms before they are whisked away to be pressed into a thick juice within 8 - 10 hours of harvest.

New lunch standouts include Grown Up Mac and Cheese (spinach, tomato, mushrooms and bacon); Carrot Ginger Soup; Lobster Roll (lemon, scallion and toasted on a brioche bun); Bibb Lettuce Salad (fresh peas, radish, egg on mustard vinaigrette).

They pick the wild edibles that grow on the periphery of our property, excitedly identifying the plants to me before popping miner's lettuce, mint and cleavers into each other's mouths.

I always have a solid patch of kale somewhere out there, I love growing lots of beautiful lettuce for fresh summer meals, and despite the lack of space, I give a large chunk of it to winter squash because it stores easily and we rely on it to get us through the long winter!

Local food was featured daily on the school lunch menu, often including Romaine lettuce, spinach, collard greens, kale, scallions and radishes grown in their teaching gardens.

Locally grown items were served on 135 days, including Gabe's Greens hydroponic lettuce served in salads at all schools.

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Despite all the talk of small farms disappearing, despite concerns of big ag controlling our food, GMOing everything and dousing it all in RoundUp, driving past my farm one might feel a flutter of relief, think there's a small farm right there where I can go and pick up a bag of organic baby kale, spot a bluebird resting on a fig branch, notice a patch of weeds growing among the lettuce.

My eyes grew to the size of watermelons but I put lettuce on a fork and hoped for the best.

Astronauts on future missions may nibble on lettuce and grow their own antibiotics, depending on the results of research that student scientists plan to conduct on the International Space Station.

During the long dry season farmers here depend on irrigation to water their vegetable crops, growing lettuce and tomatoes, green beans and onions, mangos and melons for urban markets all over the country and for export to Europe.

On so - called rafts (repurposed polystyrene insulation panels) floating in the tubs, basil, bok choy and lettuce plants grow hydroponically — that is, without soil — their bare roots dangling through holes in the rafts to draw nutrients directly from the water below.

My two boys and my dad worked together to create this planter box, and it is now home for kale, lettuce and herbs growing on our patio.

Make sure to also check the «sell by» and «use by» dates of bagged lettuce carefully, as E. coli might grow more rapidly on older greens.

on the beauty of fresh lettuces grown with Love / / farmers market pt II ✨ #plantmusings #locallysourced #love #gratitude

The videos for students illustrate the real life context for the experiments that they are working on, for example a visit to the Thorntons factory in Derby links to the experiment investigating the melting point of chocolate and a look inside an urban hydroponics farm that grows lettuces reveals that plants don't always need to grow in soil.

Six in ten children did not know lettuce grew on the ground, while nearly eight in ten (78 %) did not know broccoli grew on a plant.

The menu, created by Paris - born Executive Chef Vincent Lesage and executed by Chef de Cuisine Johan Denizot, focuses — with outstanding results — on seasonal, locally grown ingredients in intriguing combos: think house - crafted goat ricotta atop smoked lettuce, leek pesto, pistachios, and crunchy fried bread.

The USDA / NASS studies tracked harvested acres without differentiating between irrigated and non-irrigated acreage; it gathered data on planted vs. harvested acres for some crops but not others; it did not account for systems in which «baby vegetable» crops (usually organic) are grown in short rotations on the same plot (such as spinach, lettuce, and carrots) and thus have lower yields; and it omitted some data that would have revealed too much information about individual farmers, in cases where very few growers produce a particular crop.

I will not go into the pages of financial pro forma analysis, which is based on development costs of $ 110 million and the hypothetical sale of 25 million heads of lettuce per year into the local market; that is a lot of lettuce just to grow lettuce.

Indigenous communities on the city's outskirts have quit growing potatoes and lettuce.

That's enough to produce half a million lettuces a year — and, the company claims, seven times less than is required to grow the same crop on a traditional farm.

Leaf lettuce Growing leaf lettuce (and other leafy greens) in the same container as my tomatoes acts as a living mulch which helps keep the soil cooler, and reduces the chances of spreading diseases from water and soil splashing on the leaves.

With California producing nearly half of the fruit and vegetables grown in the United States, attention has naturally focused on the water required to grow popular foods such as walnuts, broccoli, lettuce, tomatoes, strawberries, almonds and grapes... But for those truly interested in lowering their water footprint, those numbers pale next to the water required to fatten livestock...

Moored on the Hudson River, it grows and harvests lettuce, cucumbers and tomatoes in a greenhouse using rain and energy from solar panels and wind turbines and biofuels.

Serve on a large hydroponically grown Boston Bibb lettuce leaf.

Whether it be lettuce in a pot on the windowsill or a full fledged back yard tilled plot, everyone can grown some of their food.

Crops of cucumbers, lettuce, broad beans and peas, carrots, cauliflower, spinach, raspberries and strawberries should all be ready to be harvested and eaten now, with waves of these and more continuing to grow and ripen, all through summer and on into the autumn.