Salmonella: Are Tomatoes From Local Farms Safer? | Newsweek Health | Newsweek.comClick on the headline for the long of it. The short of it is that there's good reason to tear up your lawn to plant tomatoes. Okay, that's x-treme but there a significant factor that runs through it all:
Large industrial producers, with packing plants and other delays, provide more time for salmonella bacteria to spread through the tomato. Small farms and locally grown produce goes more quickly to market and is safer in most, but not all cases. Improper growing habits can cause contamination even among small farmers.
The message is clear. Do it right and grow your own, at least until the FDA figures out where the contaminated tomatoes are coming from. The article cross-linked with this post is from Newsweek magazine, which seems to do a better job of covering the salmonella issue than it does of politics.
Newsweek may want to re-brand itself as a gardening magazine.
Gardener's Delight
Lamb's Ears are among the most beautiful weeds in the world. Once seeded, they tend to pop up everywhere. This blog will be something like that--a variety of things popping up:
Animals, flowers, landscaping, trees, shrubs, anything from the tremendous variety of nature.
We may review a few books and products.
Animals, flowers, landscaping, trees, shrubs, anything from the tremendous variety of nature.
We may review a few books and products.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
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