Maine greenhouse grows winter tomatoes
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Outdoors, the temperature hovered around 10 degrees and snow covered the ground. Inside, workers wore T-shirts as Gov. John Baldacci sampled the first vine-ripened tomatoes from a 25-acre greenhouse, one of the nation's largest.
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By Tux Turkel, Portland Press Herald, Maine  Dec. 10--Watching television in the winter is a process for Sarah Hines  and her roommate. They close unoccupied rooms in their Portland apartment,  tuck under blankets and sit by an electric space heater.
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By STACI MATLOCK, PHOTOS COURTESY OF BRENDA DOLAN-HOBGOOD  On Sept.
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By Judy Harrison, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Sep. 16--Kirk Winters wants to plant a rock in every county in Maine. The evangelical minister doesn't mean the kind of stones that dot the landscape.
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The UglyRipe tomato is like the frog prince. Once finally kissed by Washington regulators, it turned into a thing of beauty, and potential profit, for a Philadelphia produce distributor.
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By Moldes, A; Cendn, Y; Lpez, E; Barral, M T  Municipal solid waste (MSW) compost from aerobic or anaerobic bioprocesses was evaluated as components of substrates for potted plant production.
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By Dave DeWitte, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa  Dec. 13--Cups, gift cards, utensils, and razor handles are just some of  the products that could soon be available in biodegradable plastic form,  compliments of a plant under construction in Clinton.
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By Jim Abrams  WASHINGTON - Curious about how much of your money is going to encourage hydroponic tomato production in Ohio - or to build bridges to nowhere in Alaska? A user-friendly Web site is going to help you find out.
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Bob Lemos of Lemos Farm on Highway 92 near Half Moon Bay is optimistic about the Christmas tree season. He started selling trees last weekend, he said.
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By Elizabeth Nash  The morning is cold and damp and the mist has barely risen from the Doana marshes. But, at Vicente Gonzalez's strawberry farm in a pine forest bordering Europe's most important protected wetlands, they've been picking strawberries since daybreak.
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Before there was Home Depot for shovels and mulch, before there was JoAnn Fabrics for thread and ribbon, there was Frank&#39;s Nursery.
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By Kathy Gilbert, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Mar. 3--"A dead plant is an opportunity," joked Carol Reese, extension area specialist in ornamental horticulture from Jackson, Tenn. at Greenway Farms in Hixson last month.   Ms.
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By Kathy Gilbert, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Mar. 12--Four new community-supported agriculture programs have opened in  the Chattanooga area, a development some suggest signals more interest in  locally grown, organic produce.
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By Sharon Kiley Mack, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Dec.
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Temperatures dropped to breathtaking levels, well below zero, in extreme northern sections of Maine early Monday
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TV chefs are inspiring the nation to use plant pots, allotments and even window sills to provide fresh and exotic vegetables for our plates.
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Russia&#39;s environment minister has a novel suggestion for natural gas from its Arctic north oilfields that is usually wasted -- harness it to heat greenhouses for growing cucumbers.