Chefs mourn for B.C.'s peaches but adapt to stone fruit wipeout
Chef Gus Stieffenhofer-Brandson says that when it comes to a fat B.C. peach, there are "endless possibilities" for a fruit that signifies summer.
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Even some organic foods pack a high pesticide risk
Pesticides have contaminated the U.S. fruit and vegetable supply — even some organics — a new analysis by Consumer Reports shows.
Will tech enable grain farmers survive a new, volatile climate?
Lenore Newman, director of the Food and Agriculture Institute at the University of the Fraser Valley, said many in Western Canada have an "Old MacDonald image" of farming that is no longer realistic or sustainable.
B.C. fruit farms prepared for devastating crop yields this summer
One of the first indicators of how bountiful a fruit harvest will be in British Columbia comes months before any peaches, apricots or nectarines start fattening on trees.