The world’s largest tomato plant was grown in the experimental greenhouse at Walt Disney World Resort. It produced how many tomatoes over 16 months? 7,500 13,000 32,000 The answer is 32,000. The world’s largest tomato tree was grown in the experimental greenhouse at Walt Disney World Resort. It produced over 32,000 tomatoes in the first…
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By Bruce Cole
Edible Pursuit: Largest Tomato Plant
The Business of Foraging
Alex McNaughton puts B.C.’s forest bounty on the best restaurant tables. Even as a kid growing up in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island, Alexander McNaughton knew how to find wild edible treasure. “I probably picked chanterelles before I was 10 years old,” says McNaughton, whose childhood pastime grew into a career as a professional…
Providence Farm Collective Wins 2023 Edible Communities Sustainability Award
New York-based Providence Farm Collective is the recipient of the 2023 Sustainability Award, a recognition given by Edible Communities to a person or group for their sustainability efforts and resulting community impacts. Each year, the publishers of Edible Communities, a network of over 75 hyper local food and drink publications in the United States and…
By Sarah Findle
The Dirt on Diverting Food Waste: 3 Reasons You Might Not Have Considered
SPONSORED The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that more food reaches landfills than any other single material via our everyday trash, constituting 24 percent of municipal solid waste. That’s a lot of uneaten meals, unused ingredients and potential energy getting tossed out. Much of this waste is generated at the manufacturing level, and we’re seeing a…
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By Clay Bowers
Milkweed and Monarchs
Maintaining—and harvesting—a patch of common milkweed can help monarch butterflies survive while providing us foraged food as well. The monarch butterfly—Danaus plexippus, if you prefer its scientific name—is in a very vulnerable place right now. These butterflies have a delicate existence in which their reproduction depends upon the milkweeds. There are 73 distinct species of…