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Niba visits Raleigh City Farm to learn about cross-breeding and growing dwarf tomatoes for urban gardens. Niba also speaks with Dr. Zachary Lippman at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory who is using ...

Tomatoes are among the easiest plants to grow. But if your plant doesn't look healthy and is producing a low yield, you're ...

Another farm in Palm Beach County will soon be gone, replaced by 26 estate homes on a 26-acre parcel in an incorporated area of the county bordering Haverhill. The Mecca family has been farming ...

Smiling faces filled Jefferson Farm and Garden on Thursday for the 20th year of the Tomato Festival. University of Missouri students worked over the past nine months to grow 194 varieties of tomatoes ...

REEDLEY, Calif. — Amber Balakian remembers growing up on the family farm — going to farmers markets, playing in the irrigated rows of vegetables and eating fresh produce right off the vine. “My ...

A tomato farmer on his farm in Nyeri. Continuous use of pesticides can be harmful to pollinating insects. It is therefore advisable that you select chemicals that are least harmful to these insects.

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