Lemons Ripen Faster than Plums
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A venture capitalist in the nano sector is finding some nice pickings.
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By Elaine Guregian, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Sep. 24--Better rev up.
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By B.C. Manion, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Jun. 2--LITHIA -- Lynn Barber's favorite hobby, gardening, sounds placid enough, but it's fraught with danger.   Once, while transplanting a citrus tree, she was swarmed by fire ants.
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By Mike Joseph, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.  Jun.
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By JULIE YOUNG  Antonia FD Vassar munched on a crisp sugar-snap pea and surveyed her ripening front yard.  Little stone walkways wind around garden beds of varying shapes and sizes. An early morning sun drenches lettuces, peas, kale, strawberries, carrots and beets.
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By Margaret Slaby, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Jun. 7--You've planted and pruned, watered and watched it grow. And now, at last, the first crop of tree fruit is ripening on the branch. Then the birds descend. They perch and peck, pillage and plunder.
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Life & style: When the most delicious berries are fresh off your own plants, why bother with the supermarket variety, asks Sue Stickland.
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Tycho:  You can download homebrewed ROMs for the Fruit Fucker that enhance the efficiency of the feed reamer or allow you to juice via SMS.  I'd read on FFHacks.com tweaking boards that the machine had an array of sensors that had no apparent juicing purpose.  Of course, "hackzors" up to their spectacles in system-level code are probably the last people to read the manual.
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Children of mothers who ate more  fish and other seafood while pregnant are smarter and have  better developmental skills than kids of women who ate less or  none, researchers said on Thursday in findings they called  surprising.
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By TESS NACELEWICZ Staff Writer  Visitors to Mackworth Island in Falmouth often admire the orange- red berries of the bittersweet plant, and sometimes take them home to use in Christmas wreaths.  But what many don't know is that those berries are the fruit of a killer vine.
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Tapas _ the Spanish finger-food that is delighting palates around the world _ have a complex new champion: a delicacy of roast peppers, pickled eggplant, horse mackerel and dried leeks.Comment
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Â· Farmers say soft fruit may be left unharvestedÂ· Fewer EU migrants seeking farm jobs
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A team of researchers from Cornell University, in a study to be summarized in the Nov. 3 issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, found pungent onion varieties like New York Bold, Western Yellow
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HARRISBURG, Pa., June 5  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- State and federal agriculture officials have begun surveying and testing stone fruit trees in Pennsylvania as part of the Plum Pox virus eradication program, Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff said today.
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MILAN, Italy, Jan 11 (IPS) - Sweeter apples, greener lettuce and purer milk;   honey without sugar and wine that doesn't cause inebriation  or stomach  acidity; carrots that stay fresh for more than two  weeks.
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By RICK BARRETT  A simple sugar found in fruit and a variety of other sources could be converted to fuel for cars and trucks.
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NEW YORK  - The price of fruits and vegetables is climbing faster than inflation, while junk food is actually becoming cheaper, the findings of a new study suggest.