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Natural and Organic Food Market Competitive Landscape & Company Profiles

Competitor analysis is one of the best sections of the report that compares the progress of leading players based on crucial parameters, including market share, new developments, global reach, local competition, price, and production. From the nature of competition to future changes in the vendor landscape, the report provides in-depth analysis of the competition in the Natural and Organic Food market.

Segmental Analysis

Both developed and emerging regions are deeply studied by the authors of the report. The regional analysis section of the report offers a comprehensive analysis of the global Natural and Organic Food market on the basis of region. Each region is exhaustively researched about so that players can use the analysis to tap into unexplored markets and plan powerful strategies to gain a foothold in lucrative markets.

Regions Covered in these Report:

Asia Pacific (China, Japan, India, and Rest of Asia Pacific) Europe (Germany, the UK, France, and Rest of Europe) North America (the US, Mexico, and Canada) Latin America (Brazil and Rest of Latin America) Middle East & Africa (GCC Countries and Rest of Middle East & Africa)

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Natural and Organic Food Market Research Methodology

The research methodology adopted for the analysis of the market involves the consolidation of various research considerations such as subject matter expert advice, primary and secondary research. Primary research involves the extraction of information through various aspects such as numerous telephonic interviews, industry experts, questionnaires and in some cases face-to-face interactions. Primary interviews are usually carried out on a continuous basis with industry experts in order to acquire a topical understanding of the market as well as to be able to substantiate the existing analysis of the data.

Subject matter expertise involves the validation of the key research findings that were attained from primary and secondary research. The subject matter experts that are consulted have extensive experience in the market research industry and the specific requirements of the clients are reviewed by the experts to check for completion of the market study. Secondary research used for the Natural and Organic Food market report includes sources such as press releases, company annual reports, and research papers that are related to the industry. Other sources can include government websites, industry magazines and associations for gathering more meticulous data. These multiple channels of research help to find as well as substantiate research findings.

Table of Content

1 Introduction of Natural and Organic Food Market

1.1 Overview of the Market 1.2 Scope of Report 1.3 Assumptions

2 Executive Summary

3 Research Methodology of Verified Market Research

3.1 Data Mining 3.2 Validation 3.3 Primary Interviews 3.4 List of Data Sources

4 Natural and Organic Food Market Outlook

4.1 Overview 4.2 Market Dynamics 4.2.1 Drivers 4.2.2 Restraints 4.2.3 Opportunities 4.3 Porters Five Force Model 4.4 Value Chain Analysis

5 Natural and Organic Food Market, By Deployment Model

5.1 Overview

6 Natural and Organic Food Market, By Solution

6.1 Overview

7 Natural and Organic Food Market, By Vertical

7.1 Overview

8 Natural and Organic Food Market, By Geography

8.1 Overview 8.2 North America 8.2.1 U.S. 8.2.2 Canada 8.2.3 Mexico 8.3 Europe 8.3.1 Germany 8.3.2 U.K. 8.3.3 France 8.3.4 Rest of Europe 8.4 Asia Pacific 8.4.1 China 8.4.2 Japan 8.4.3 India 8.4.4 Rest of Asia Pacific 8.5 Rest of the World 8.5.1 Latin America 8.5.2 Middle East

9 Natural and Organic Food Market Competitive Landscape

9.1 Overview 9.2 Company Market Ranking 9.3 Key Development Strategies

10 Company Profiles

10.1.1 Overview 10.1.2 Financial Performance 10.1.3 Product Outlook 10.1.4 Key Developments

11 Appendix

11.1 Related Research

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June 14, 2020

What is as rare as a night of fireflies in early June? As the night of June warms up the twilight is bright with the amber flicker of glowing fireflies. They still bring back memories of a huge sawdust pile in Northampton County in northeastern North Carolina on warm summer evenings. There would be hundreds of them flying around. All the kids in the neighborhood would catch them in quart mason jars and our hands would smell like the unforgettable scent of lightning bugs as our grandma called them.

Fireflies were given this scent by the Lord to protect them from enemies likes bats and other night-flying birds. Their unusual scent would alert the bats that the fireflies tasted as bad as they smelled. A fireflys glow is more than just a signal for a mate-it also warns other insects that they are near. Even when eggs of fireflies reach larva stage, they are protected from enemies by that amber glow. Enjoy the glow of fireflies this evening. You may want to see if you have the memory of that lightning bug smell.

Portaluca is a rainbow of color in a container. The colorful portaluca, also known as desert rose, cactus rose, or rose moss, is a distant cousin of the cactus family. It is popular in Texas and Oklahoma and in Oklahoma, they plant rose moss in old transfer truck or tractor tires filled with potting soil. My grandma in Northampton County planted it in an old wash pot with holes in the bottom of it.

Rose moss comes in a rainbow of colors and endure summers heat extremes. The best feature is that when you purchase it in six- or nine-packs, it is in bloom so that you know the colors you are selecting. You can choose from red, orange, white, yellow, bronze, pink, tan, wine, hot pink, lemon, and wine. They have tiny cactus-like foliage and the flowers highlight the foliage. You can use Miracle-Gro cactus medium or flower potting soil and both will promote healthy growth. They like plenty of sun. On cloudy days, they may require a half day to open fully. Unlike other annuals, you can plant rose moss close together and it will not get root-bound. You can plant three or four nine-packs.

Cucumbers and squash will thrive and grow quickly when planted in mid-June. The late-spring days and nights are warm and seeds and plants of cucumbers and squash will grow and quickly respond to warm soil. You can sow squash and cucumbers or set out plants, but the seeds you sow will quickly catch up with them. Sow or plant cucumbers and squash about two feet apart. As plants grow, keep a layer of soil hilled up on both sides of the plants. Feed them every 15 days with Garden-Tone organic vegetable food.

Taking care of late-spring roses. All during spring, the roses have put on a colorful show and are still providing plenty of blooms as we move further into June. Keep deadheading spent blooms. Deadheading is just another name for pulling spent blooms from rose bushes to promote growth of new blooms all during summer. As we move into Dog Days and warmer temps next month, keep roses watered once a week when no rain occurs. Apply Rose-Tone organic rose food every 15 days. Check roses for Japanese beetles and spray foliage with a mist of liquid Sevin if beetles infest them. Use a bottle sprayer such as Windex comes in and fill it with Sevin spray. Apply on a sunny day so the Sevin mist will dry on the foliage. Use a rose spray every ten days to control mites and other insect pests.

Unforgettable perfume of the honeysuckles. The sweet aroma of the wild honeysuckles on a warm spring evening is so very pleasant to the nostrils and reflects nature and springtime at its very best. Pick a few honeysuckle stems and place in a bud vase to bring that scent inside your home. We love the colors of honeysuckles with white and coral-orange colors. Its no wonder hummingbirds are attracted to them.

Keep planting rows of green beans. Green beans respond very quickly in warm soil and comfortable June nights. There are so many productive varieties to choose from. The very best is strike followed by Top Crop, Contender, Derby, and Blue Lake Bush. Plant in a -or four-inch deep furrow. Sow seed and cover seed with a layer of peat moss and an application of Garden-Tone vegetable organic food. Hill soil up on both sides of the furrow and tamp down with a hoe blade. When beans develop two leaves, apply Plant-Tone every fifteen days and hill up soil on both sides of the row.

Making crispy Macaroni and Cheese. This is a great recipe for a warm late spring evening supper. You will need one can of Campbells cream of cheese soup (10 3/4 ounces), half cup of milk, half teaspoon of prepared mustard, half teaspoon pepper, three cups cooked elbow macaroni, one eight-ounce package finely shredded sharp cheddar cheese, two cups crushed Cheetos, and a half stick margarine. In a large bowl mix cream of cheese soup, milk, mustard, pepper, finely shredded sharp cheese, crushed Cheetos. Stir all ingredients together and add the cooked macaroni (one and a half cups uncooked macaroni will yield three cups cooked macaroni). Pour into a casserole dish sprayed with PAM baking spray or Bakers Joy. Bake at 400 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes until firm.

Hoe-Hoe-Hoedown: Spot Remover. Betty Jo: Why are you so sad, Bobbie Jo? Bobbie Jo: I took my leopard-skin coat to the cleaners. Betty Jo: What happened there? Bobbie Jo: The coat came back spotless!

Bible Baffle- Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The chicken of course. God does not lay eggs!

Bible Baffle Where was deviled ham first mention in the Bible? When evil spirits entered the swine.

Riddle Diddle What fish is mans best friend? The dogfish.

Dog Tale What did the dog say when he got his tail hung in the door? It wont be long now!

Today is Flag Day. Remember to fly the red, white, and blue today. One this special flag-waving and flag-flying day, its timely to present a bit of U.S. Flag Etiquette: 1. Never allow the flag to touch the ground or any other object while being displayed. 2. Salute the flag as it is raised and lowered, and when National Anthem is played, also during the Pledge or Allegiance to the flag while standing at attention with right hand over your heart. 3. Display the flag outdoors only between sunrise and sunset unless illuminated by a spotlight. 4. When displaying the flag indoors, always place the flag to the right of the speaker or stage area. 5. To place the flag at half-mast, raise the flag to its peak for a second before lowering the flag to half-mast.

June 07, 2020

The final few days of Piedmont strawberry season. The next few days will be your last opportunity to visit a pick-you-own strawberry field near you. The harvest for 2020 is down to the last few days. It is worth one more visit to pick or purchase a gallon or two. Nothing is better than freshly picked strawberries mixed with dairy whipping cream and some shortcake. Call ahead to the field to make sure berries are still available. As the strawberry season winds down, it closes out with a Full Strawberry Moon. This moon was full Friday night, but rises a bit later tonight and is still almost full. Go outside before bedtime tonight and enjoy this beautiful full moon in the waning phase.

Keep setting out a few tomato plants each week. The soil of early June is ideal for setting out tomato plants each week for as long as they can be found to assure and abundant harvest all summer long. The determinate varies such as Celebrity, Better Boy, Rutgers, Marglobe, and Homestead, as well as Early Girl will perform well and produce tomatoes in late summer.

Use a healthy organic tomato food to boost tomato growth. Tomatoes do not need to be fertilized, they need to be fed. Organic plant food for tomato plants will feed them the nutrients they need for a great yield. Tomato-Tone plant food is totally organic and comes in three pound zippered plastic bags. Side dress the tomato plants and hill up soil on both sides of the plants. Tomato-Tone has a fine texture that absorbs quickly into the soil and tomato plants respond quickly to it.

Controlling blossom-end rot on tomatoes. There are several great ways to control blossom-end rot on tomato plants. The first solution is a two-parter. The first part is to water tomato plants at the base of the plants and not the foliage when conditions are dry. The second part is to apply handfuls of powdered lime (calcium carbonate) on both sides of the tomato plants and then hill soil up on both sides of the row to cover the lime. A chemical way to control blossom-end rot is to apply Captan mixed with proper amount of water and poured into a spray bottle such as Windex window spray comes in (or any type of spray bottle). Spray the tomato blossoms with a fine mist. We like the first method of control better because it is practical and adds something beneficial to the soil in the process. There is still another method to control blossom-end rot and that is to fill a sprinkling can with water and add a half cup of Epsom salts to the water and pour around the base of the plants.

Planting a row of lima beans. The warn soil of June provides ideal conditions for sowing a row of lima beans. They will sprout and grow quickly during warm days and nights of June and July and produce a harvest in 70 to 75 days. You can choose from Dixie butter pea, Henderson Bush, or Fordhook 242. A row planted now will produce a harvest in late July or early August. Sow in a furrow about three or four inches deep. Cover seed with a layer of peat moss, a layer of Black Kow composted cow manure, an application of Garden-Tone organic vegetable food. Hill up soil on each side of furrow and tamp soil down with a hoe blade for good contact with the soil. When beans develop two leaves, side dress with Garden-Tone every fifteen days and hill soil up on both sides of row to cover the Plant-Tone.

Making applesauce puff muffins. This is a quick dessert for a late spring supper with simple ingredients. You will need two cups Bisquick, one cup sugar, one and a half teaspoons apple pie spice, three fourth cup applesauce, one fourth cup milk, one slightly beaten large egg, two tablespoons Crisco oil, half stick melted margarine. Combine Bisquick, sugar, apple pie spice, stir and then add applesauce, milk, egg, and Crisco oil. Beat for a minute. Pour mixture into greased muffin pans or use cupcake liners. Fill to 2/3 full. Bake at 400 degrees for 12 minutes or until they test done. Cool for a minute or two and remove from pans. Mix two tablespoons of sugar and half teaspoon apple pie spice together. Melt the half stick margarine. Spread melted margarine over the cupcakes and them sprinkle the mixture of sugar-apple pie spices over muffins.

Keeping humming bird feeders filled. The fragrant flowers of the wild honeysuckle is a staple of hummingbirds diet from May until mid-June. As the blooms decline, there may be a short lull in their food chain as many other flowers have not yet reached bloom stage. Keep hummingbird feeders replenished twice a week. This will keep the hummers visiting your porch or deck and they will discover a dependable source of nectar.

The wonder world of the pollinators. Did you know that more than half the food we eat is made possible because of the bees and other pollinators? They need pollen and nectar to survive and be healthy. Along with bees, other pollinators include hare wasps, bumblebees, hummingbirds, and many types of flies. Bees are the only insect in the world that produces a food that we can eat, and that product is honey and honeycomb. Nectar that produces honey is a powerful food. A bee could get enough energy from one ounce of honey to make a flight around the world. Bees have great color vision and can discern flowers and varieties by their color. They are especially attracted to yellow, white, purple, blue, or violet. There is no such thing as tame bees. The same type bee in a hollow tree is the same type bee that lives in a domesticated hive. A bee can travel a mile in search of nectar. Only females produce honey. Male bees are called drones and their job is keeping the hive cool and fertilizing the eggs of the hives only queen bee. At the end of the season, the droners are driven from the hive. In freezing weather, bees ball up in the hive to stay warm and derive energy from stored honey. In this 21st century, farmers, gardeners, and homeowners are the bees worst enemy because they use, misuse, and abuse by their use of pesticides, herbicides and insect killers. When this is continued to be practiced, we are biting the hand that feeds us!

Rainbows and quickie thunderstorms. A bit of late spring weather lore says that, When the wind blows puffy clouds across the sky on a very warm afternoon, get your umbrella handy because a thunderstorm is brewing over the horizon. We are now approaching the season of thunderstorms and much of summers water supple for the garden plot will arrive in the form of pop up thunderstorms. They are beneficial because they have an ample amount of electricity in them, that jump starts the vegetables in the warm weather garden. Another bonus is the fresh aroma after an afternoon shower. Another color bonus is a rainbow in the eastern sky as the sun returns after the storm. Another beautiful sight is when the sky is still dark in the east and the rainbow has a glowing effect and reflects what looks like a double rainbow.

Hoe-Hoe-Howdown: Store manager: I saw you arguing with that customer who just left. I told you before that the customer is always right. Didnt you understand me? Salesman: Yes sir, the customer is always right. Store manager- Thats better. Now what were you and the customer arguing about? Salesman: Well sir, he said you were an idiot!

Enjoying the waning strawberry moon. The full Strawberry Moon occurred on Friday night but you can still enjoy the waning strawberry moon as it rises later each night this week. Let the light of the moon influence your garden plots growing vegetables by getting some moon water prepared to pour on the growing vegetables. Tonight before sunset, fill several five gallon plastic buckets with water and allow the waning full moon to shine down on the water during the night. Next morning, pour the moon-struck water into sprinkling cans and pour around the base of tomato plants, peppers, and growing vegetables. This is a trick our great-grandparents used a century ago. The moon does have an influence on growing things.

May 31, 2020

Peppers are truly a tropical vegetable. As we reach the final day of the month of May, the time is ideal for setting out pepper plants in the sweet, hot, and very hot varieties. Peppers are tropical in nature and thrive during warm days and nights. In sweet peppers, you can select California Wonder, Keystone, Bit Bertha, and Door Knob. Keep the hot varieties a distance from sweet varieties to prevent bees from cross-pollinating them and causing all peppers to be hot.

Peppers need to be caged or staked. The thunderstorms of summer can blow pepper plants over and at harvest, pepper plants need to be supported from wet soil to prevent rot or damage from critters plus making peppers easier to harvest by causing them to be more visible.

Robins on the lawn and birds in trees. Robins are on the lawn as they search for worms, grubs, and insects. There are birds with straw and building materials for nests in their beaks and sipping water from the birdbath. There is plenty of action on the lawn and at the edge of the garden. Keep the birdbath filled with fresh water every day and also keep hummingbird feeders filled with nectar twice a week. This will attract more hummers to the feeders and make your lawn and garden more bird-friendly.

Last opportunity to pick-your-own strawberries. Tomorrow will be the first day of June and also this week will be the ending of this years strawberry season. If you go to a field this week, call to make sure they are open and if they have the berries you need, especially if you want ready-picked berries.

Making a strawberry cream cake. This strawberry recipe is a great way to end the strawberry harvest season and so very simple to prepare. You will need one cup plain four, one and a half teaspoons baking powder, one-fourth teaspoon salt, half-cup light margarine, one cup sugar, two large eggs, one teaspoon vanilla flavoring, one cup milk, one three-ounce box Jello instant vanilla pudding mix, one quart fresh strawberries. Mix flour, baking powder, and salt together. Cream in sugar and margarine. Add eggs and vanilla flavoring, add one third cup milk. Place batter into two nine-inch cake pans that have been greased and floured. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes, until cake springs back when touched. Allow cake to cool after removing from pans. Combine vanilla instant pudding mix, with one and a half cups milk and whip until thick and set aside. Prepare fresh strawberries by capping and cutting them into quarters and mixing with half cup of sugar. Spread pudding mix on first layer and then cover with layer of strawberries. Repeat with the second layer. Chill cake in refrigerator and top with Cool Whip.

What is as wonderful as the aroma of honeysuckles on a warm late spring evening? The wonderful colors of pale orange and white flowers of honeysuckles emitting their sweet scent wafting through the country lanes, woodlands, and on the edge of highways in the Piedmont areas of Surry and Stokes county as well as through out the Carolinas. Its no wonder that hummingbirds are attracted to them. No other flower except the Carolina Jasmine can produce such a perfume. The unforgettable scent of the honeysuckle is so gentle, sweet, and kind to the nostrils.

Planting a pot or container of the unusual Dragon Wing begonia. This unusual type of begonia produces clusters of hot pink or red blooms continuously all summer on glossy oblong leaves. Only one of these plants is all you need to cascade over the pot or container like a huge umbrella. Give it a drink of water twice a week and an application of Flower-Tone organic flower food once every 15 days and you can enjoy beautiful blooms and foilage all summer long.

Keep setting out a few tomato plants each week. This week is the first week of June and even though most of the tomato plants for the harvest of summers bounty has already been set out, continue to set out a few more plants each week for as long as you can find healthy plants. This will assure a long harvest and plenty of tomatoes over a long growing season with plenty of tomatoes to share.

The corn crop should be planted soon. Most varieties of corn requires a 75- to 95-day growing season for an abundant harvest and few insects enemies, corn should be planted very soon. This needs to be done within the next week or so in order to have enough season left to plant another crop to succeed the corn later on. You can choose from Silver Queen, Golden Queen, How Sweet It Is, Early Sunglow, Kandy Korn, Illini Chief, Butterfruit, and Golden Bantam. Plant as many as three or four rows for wind and bee pollination. Thin to two plants per hill when the seed sprout and as the corn grows, keep soil hilled up on both sides of the row to support corn from storms and winds. Fertilize corn every two weeks and hill plant food into the rows. Keep a close eye out for Japanese beetles all during the summer and spray with Sevin to control them, especially at tassle time when ears begin to form.

Applying food to thriving tomato plants. Do no use 10-10-10 fertilizers or chemical fertilizers on tomatoes because they do not need nitrogen but calcium and other nutrients that promote healthy growth as well as better production. There are plenty of tomato foods and some that prevent blossom-end rot. Consider using Dr. Earths special formula tomato food sold in three-pound bags at Home Depot or Ace Hardware. You can also use Vigaro calcium-enriched tomato food sold in two pound bags. Miracle-Gro liquid tomato food is also another tomato food you mix with water and pour around the base of tomatoes. The very best of tomato foods is Tomato-Tone organic tomato food sold in three pound plastic zipper bags at Home Depot, Lowes and Ace Hardware. Dr. Earth is also great, finely textured and a little goes a long way. Most of these foods are totally organic and blend quickly into the soil. Sprinkle a little on both sides of the tomato plants and pull the soil up over the tomato food.

Planting rows or beds of lima beans. Lima beans are also a crop that is very tropical and thrives in the warm soil of summer. You can choose from Henderson Bush, Fordhook 242, Dixie Butterpea. They require a 75 day growing cycle. They will grow quickly in the warmth of June and July. Sow them in a furrow about three or four inches deep. Apply a layer of peat moss in bottom of furrow and sow seeds on top of the peat moss and then cover seed with another layer of peat moss. Apply a layer of Black Kow composted cow manure and then a layer of Garden-Tone organic vegetable food. Hill up soil on both sides of the furrow and tamp down with the hoe blade. When the beans sprout, side dress with Garden-Tone and pull soil up on both sides to cover the Garden-Tone. Feed every two weeks.

Watering hanging baskets daily. With June coming in tomorrow, keep the hanging baskets, containers, and pots of annuals watered every day. Apply water until it runs from hole in bottoms of the containers. Use Flower-Tone organic flower food every 15 days and stir it into the soil.

Planting a colorful container of rose moss. Add color to the porch or deck with a huge container of portaluca, also known as desert rose, cactus rose, and rose moss. One of the qualities of rose moss is it comes in four and six packs and is already in full bloom so you will know the colors that you are planting. The moss comes in colors of red, yellow, orange, pink, white, wine, burgandy, tan, and other colors. They produce a show of different color patterns every day because they have new blooms every morning. Keep them fed with Flower-Tone organic flower food every two weeks an water each day because they love full sun.

Hoe-Hoe-Hoedown: And mother makes two- A daughter engaged to be married said, But I dont want to leave my mother. Her dad said, I understand but dont let me stand in the way, take your mother with you.

Wrong Doctor- A farmer fell and broke his hip while he was plowing, and his horse galloped five miles into town and returned carrying a doctor on his back. Thats a pretty smart horse, a friend said later. Well, not really so smart said the farmer. The doctor he brought back was a veterinarian.

County Church Sign- The sign outside the county church said You are not too bad too come in. You are not too good to stay out.

May 24, 2020

A trip to a strawberry farm near you this week. Strawberry season is slowly winding down in Surry and Stokes counties and only a few more days left to pick your own harvest of fresh strawberries to freeze and enjoy in pies, shortcakes, jams, jellies, and preserving. The warm days of May with comfortable temperatures and no humidity makes picking easy. If you dont have time to pick, call ahead and order some ready-picked berries which are reasonably priced. Next week may be the last opportunity this season to partake in this years Piedmont strawberry harvest. Wherever you live in the area, there is a pick-your-own field near you.

Retaining quality when you freeze strawberries. To make fresh strawberries that you freeze taste like fresh berries from the field all you need to do is use a little tender loving care. When handling the fresh-picked berries, process them as soon as you bring them home from the field. While at the field, buy a strawberry capper. Most strawberry farmers sell them for a little more than a dollar. Strawberries have caps and not hulls. The cappers make handy tools for removing the caps from the berries without much handling. The first step in freezing berries is to remove the caps from the berries. Do this before you wash the berries. The less you handle the berries, the better quality they will be when frozen. After capping berries, run cold water into the sink, run cold water in other side of sink. Place a quart of capped berries in first sink for half minute. Remove and place berries in second sink for half minute. Quickly remove the quart of berries and place on a dry towel and drain for one minute. Place the quart of berries in a plastic one quart freezer container. Do not pack or mash berries into containers. Repeat process over and over, one quart at a time. Later when berries are thawed, they will have the taste and firmness of fresh strawberries.

Making a Shoneys strawberry pie. This is a melt-in-you-mouth tart strawberry pie. You can use a frozen pie crust or a graham cracker crust which is better. You will need one cup of sugar, one cup cold water, six tablespoons corn starch, one three-ounce box strawberry of Jello, one quart fresh strawberries cut into quarters, one unbaked pie shell or graham cracker pie crust. Cut the fresh strawberries into quarters and spread into pie shell or crust. Heat the cup of water and stir in the sugar and corn starch until thick, remove from heat and add strawberry Jello, and stir until well-blended. Pour over strawberries and chill an hour in refrigerator. Top with Cool Whip or whipped cream.

Making a good potting medium for annuals in containers and hanging baskets. My mother always said that You get just what you pay for. This is so very true when purchasing potting medium for annuals, ferns, flowers and plants. These annuals are in for a long, hot summer on the porch or deck, so why waste time and money on bags of lumps, clumps, sawdust, and bark in bag name potting soil that does not have too much soil in it? Why waste your money in beautiful flowers and plant them in lumpy, cheap, potting soil? Purchase potting medium especially formulated for flowers, plants, and annuals that has good texture and nutrients that flowers thrive on. Good potting medium comes in 20- to 40-pound bags and you will not feel any bark or lumps in the bags. Use the feel test when you buy a bag quality potting medium. A good bit of wisdom is dont buy a bag that has a hole in it, inspect it carefully.

Keep a bag of peat moss on hand for planting flowers and vegetables. Peat moss is a great enhancer and an improver of all types of soil and it also helps retain water as well as absorb moisture into the soil thus promoting growth and health of both flowers and vegetables. A 3.5 cubic foot bale of peat moss costs around $10 to $11 dollars. To use, all you have to do is slice open the top of the bale and shovel out what you need and use a few clothespins to seal the bale until you need some more. It is a good rule to never run out of peat moss all during the growing season.

The benefits a Black Kow bag brings to the garden plot. This organic product in a yellow and black plastic bag pays rich dividends to any garden plot or raised bed. It can be purchased in hardwares, Lowes, and Home Depot and all garden centers. You can purchase it in 25- and 50-pound bags. It is totally organic and ready to use. A 25-pound bag costs between $5 and $6 dollars. It is good for the soil, good for vegetables and flowers and best of all-good for the environment.

The time is ideal for the setting out tomato plants. The nights of May are definitely getting warmer and this is a sure sign that it is time to start the bulk of the tomato crop for a bountiful mid-summer harvest. The warm May days and nights will get them off and running. In all, there are at 350 varieties of tomatoes in all sizes, shapes, and colors. Some colors are red, pink, orange, yellow, purple, green (for frying), and believe it or not, there are white tomatoes. Of all the tomato varieties the best are Big Boy, Rutgers, Marylobe, Homestead, Better Boy, Parks Whopper, Celebrity, Early Girl, Beffy Boy, Beffy Steak, Roma and German Johnson. Plant quite a few varities for a long and consistent harvest. Also plant a few plants each week for as long as you can find healthy plants to continue to prolong the summer harvest. Remember that all summer tomatoes no matter what variety need to be caged or staked for support as well as protection from wind and thunderstorms and keep the harvest off the ground. Allow at least two feet between each tomato plant to allow for stakes, cages, and room to harvest.

Impatiens make the prettiest of all hanging baskets. The impatiens is so useful as an annual and can be planted in borders, beds, and rows. It can also be planted in pots, containers, but their main attribute is what they do to adorn hanging baskets as they cascade over the sides of the baskets. Plant only two or three plants per basket to avoid them getting rootbound. Water baskets every day until water runs out hold in bottom of the baskets. Feed with Flower-Tone organic flower food every ten days. The impatiens comes in colors of red, white, pink, rose, wine, orange, salmon. They come in four and six packs and best of all, they come in full bloom.

Planting a row or bed of color in the form of zinnias. To attract butterflies, hummingbirds, bees, all kinds of pollinators as well as Emrches and other birds, plant a row or bed of zinnias. The colorful zinnias are a favorite of tiger swallowtail and the Monarch butterflies. Plant zinnias all during the month of May and feed them every two weeks with Flower-Tone organic flower food.

Hoe-Hoe-Hoedown: Circus fun! Why did the sword swallower swallow an umbrella? Because he wanted to put something away for a rainy day.

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May 17, 2020

Mid-May is cucumber and squash time. As we reach the middle of May, it is now the perfect time to sow seeds of cucumbers and squash. They love the warm soil of mid-May and now the days and the nights are getting warmer. Most cucumbers will produce fruit in 55 to 60 days. Good varieties are Poinsett 76, Long Green, Straight Eight, Ashley, Marketmore 76, and Parks Whopper Two, which produces long, dark green cukes in 55 days. Asian cucumbers are popular in American variety. Burpee has an Asian cucumber names Suyo Long that matures in 60 days and they will grow up to 16 inches long and can be harvested at any length which makes it a plus. A packet of 20 seeds cost a little over four dollars.

Plant cucumbers in a furrow about three or four inches deep, three or four seed at one foot apart. Cover the bottom of furrow with a layer of peat moss, sow seed, and cover with another layer of peat moss and then apply a layer of Garden-Tone vegetable organic food. Hill soil up on each side of row and tamp down with the hoe blade for good soil contact. When cucumbers sprout, thin to two plants per hill.

Warm soil of mid-May will promote growth of summer squash. Summer squash will thrive and grow quickly in the warm garden soil of mid-May. The nights are now warmer and will promote even faster growth. You can choose from crookneck or straightneck varieties. Personally, we prefer the straightnecks simply because they dont have many seeds and the seeds are smaller, and the squash are meatier, plus the seeds can easily be scooped out and squash can be cut into half-inch cubes for casseroles, fried squash, or sonkers.

The best straightneckers are Early Prolific Straightneck Enterprise by Park Seed, Saffron my Burpee, and a new variety by Burpee Seed named Fort Knox, which produces fruit in 50 days. The squash are ten inches long. There are 20 seeds in a packet and it cost $5.45. Pricey, but with ten-inch fruits and a longer harvest, they may be worth a try. Many Burpee Seed can be purchased at Walmart, Home Depot, or Lowes.

If you prefer crooknecks, Burpee has the varieties of Golden Goose, Gourmet Gold, and Pick-a-Lot. Park Seed has Summerpac and Early Summer Crookneck. Plant squash in a furrow about three to four inches deep. Apply a layer of peat moss to the bottom of the furrow and sow four seeds to a hill about a foot apart and cover with a layer of peat moss, a layer of Black Kow composted cow manure and a layer of Garden-Tone organic vegetable food. Hill up soil on both sides of the row and tamp down soil with the hoe blade for soil contact. When squash sprouts, thin to two healthy plants per hill and keep soil hilled up to the squash. Side dress with Garden-Tone every two weeks.

Feed the garden instead of using fertilizer. For a healthier garden and better soil enrichment feed your garden instead of using pellet and chemical fertilizers. Use organic natural plant foods that boost the vegetables as well as the soil. You can use Alaska fish emulsion as a liquid plant food mixed with the proper amount of water for quick response to growing plants and vegetables. You can use organic plant and flower foods such as Garden-Tone vegetable food, Plant-Tone plant food, Flower-Tone for all kind of flowers, Holly-Tone organic food for azaleas and evergreens, Rose-Tone organic food for roses, Black Kow organic composted cow manure and 3.5 cubic foot bales of peat moss, Dr. Earth vegetable and tomato plant foods sold in three-pound bags at Home Depot. All these products dissolve quickly in the soil and plants and vegetables will quickly respond to these organic reasonably priced and easy to handle products.

Irish potatoes are producing dark green foliage. The Irish potatoes are producing lush green foliage that is bushy. It will not be long until they have tiny green spuds developing under the foliage. Keep soil hilled up to the foliage and side dress with Garden-Tone organic vegetable food. Keep a close eye out for Colorado striped potato beetles and lightly spray with liquid Sevin at the first sign of them. As white blooms form, continue to feed every ten days by side dressing with Garden-Tone organic vegetable food and hill up soil around the potato vines.

Starting a row or two of green beans. The warm days and nights of mid-May are just right for sowing a couple of rows of green beans for the 2020 growing season. Warm May soil will give them a jump start. You can choose from many vegetable varieties such as Top Crop, Kentucky Wonder Bush, Blue Lake Bush, Derby, Strike, Tenderette, Contender, Blue Lake 274, and White Half Runner. Green beans produce a harvest in 55 to 60 days, and if you cleanly harvest them, they will produce beans for several weeks. Sow bean seed in a furrow about four inches deep. Apply a layer of peat moss in the bottom of the furrow and sow beans on top of peat moss. Apply another layer of peat moss, a layer of Black Kow composted cow manure and a layer of Plant-Tone organic plant food. Hill up soil on each side of the furrow and tamp down with the hoe blade for contact with the soil. After beans sprout, side dress with Garden-Tone organic plant food every ten days. When beans bloom, apply a sprinkle of Dr. Earth vegetable plant food on both sides of row and hill up soil on both sides to promote a healthy bean harvest.

Partaking in the pick your own harvest of strawberries. A strawberry field on a warm May morning with the aroma of sweet strawberries and the perfume of honeysuckles wafting on the breeze and birds singing on a May morning in Surry or Stokes County. Picking berries is a fun thing to do and we like to crawl through the row and get right down where the berries are. Frozen strawberries that are capped and frozen whole are almost as good as fresh. Gather plenty for shortcakes with fresh whipped dairy cream or a strawberry cobbler. Pick enough to share with a neighbor.

Making a strawberry-banana salad. This salad is as fresh as a visit to the strawberry patch in Surry County, and easy to prepare! You will need two three-ounce boxes of strawberry Jello, one cup or boiling water, one and a half quarts of fresh strawberries cut into halves or quarters, four bananas cut into cubes, a half cup chopped pecans, one carton sour cream, half cup sugar, and one teaspoon vanilla flavoring. Dissolve strawberry Jello in the boiling water, add fresh strawberries, add cubed bananas, sprinkle with lemon juice. Pour half the mixture into a bowl or mold and chill until firm. Mix sour cream with vanilla flavoring and sugar (you can use strawberry flavoring instead of vanilla). Pour sour cream mixture over chilled Jello mixture that has been chilled. Add the remaining Jello mixture and chill until very firm. Makes 8 to 10 servings.

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Fun Pun Why did cave men always live in caves? Because they could not afford condos.

May 10, 2020

The season of the fireflies is almost here. The second week of May has now arrived. The days and nights are getting warmer as we move further into the month of May. We can look forward to and expect the arrival of the fireflies or their other name, lightning bugs as they were called by my mother and grandma. We hope this will be a bountiful year for them. They are unusual insects with a light in their tail. Some years they are more abundant than they are in other years. We believe their numbers depend on how warm the weather is as we move into the first weeks of May. Warm days are when their eggs hatch out and produce the population of the seasons fireflies .A previously cold and hard winter could be a factor in the number of fireflies we will enjoy in the spring and summer of 2020.

The humming birds are now in full cycle. The warm and sunny days of May send a message that the season of the humming birds is now in full swing mode. Many spring flowers are not in bloom yet and that means hummers will be heading to the feeders in search of nectar. Keep feeders half full during the first half of the month of May to check how much they are consuming every three days. If they consume most of it, fill the feeders completely full. You can purchase envelopes of powdered nectar that you mix with water or ready-to-use nectar in half gallon bottles. You can also make your own with a half-and-half mixture of water and sugar with a few drops of red food coloring. Change nectar every three or four days and also clean the feeders.

Moving the Christmas cactus outside. All of the Christmas cactus have wintered over in the sunny living room since mid-October. Now with the warm temperatures of early May, they are ready to be moved outside to the front porch for spring, summer, and early autumn. The warm sun prepares cactus for a bloom season in mid-November. They enjoy a semi-sunny location on the front porch and a drink of water once a week and a shot of Miracle-Gro liquid plant food once a month. Cactus dont like direct sunlight and their foliage will turn red if they receive too much sunlight.

Adding cactus potting medium to Christmas cactus. When moving Christmas cactus outside for summer, add extra cactus medium to the containers. You can purchase Miracle-Gro cactus, citrus, and Palm potting medium in eight quart bags at Home Depot and Lowes for less than seven dollars a bag. It is in an orange bag and formulated for effective drainage which cactus need.

You can start Christmas cactus from cuttings. You can root cactus from cuttings and share a Christmas cactus with friends. As the Christmas cactus cascades over their containers, pinch off a stem of foliage about eight inches to ten inches long and place in a clean plastic or glass bottle of water and in a few weeks it will start to develop roots. When the cactus grows several inches taller, transplant it into a container of cactus starting medium and use a plastic drip tray for the container. Water once a week and feed with Miracle-Gro liquid food once a month.

The season of a Blackberry Winter. As the month of May moves along, we can enjoy two or more weeks of Blackberry Winter and some uncomfortably cool nights as the wild blackberries begin their season of white blooms. There are plenty of blackberry vines along county lanes and fields, meadows and roadsides in Stokes and Surry county and all across the Piedmont. We just came through Dogwood Spring, a period of cold at Aprils end and now we have a few weeks of Blackberry Winter. After these cool days, the nights and days should both be consistently warmer.

A pickle of a cucumber idea! May is here and the nights are getting a little warmer each evening and in about ten days or so, the soil in the garden plot should be warm enough to sow seeds of cucumbers. A great idea for all of you who love to make homemade pickles. You can make your own supply of dill weed that you can produce in the same row or bed in which you plant your cucumbers. Purchase a packet or two of dill seed at the hardware or garden department. Your hardware can weigh you out a half ounce for less than the price of two packets of seed. If you sow enough dill weed, you can also make several pints of dill vinegar to improve the flavor of collards, kale, mustard greens and mixed greens. You can also dry the seed for seasoning and of course, use the dill weed itself for dill pickles. If you sow dill in the cucumber bed, sow it in the outer rows on each side.

Making dill vinegar. To make dill vinegar, add a cup of chopped dill weed to a pint of vinegar, add salt, sugar, pepper, and hot sauce (to taste). Boil the mixture and place in sterilized pint jars, seal and process in hot water bath canner for five minutes. Dill seed in small spice bottles can be purchased at supermarkets if you would like dill seed in your pickles.

Avoiding powdery mildew on impatiens. In the past few years, impatiens have become victims of a fungus that causes powdery mildew that hinders the colorful and long-lasting blooms of impatiens. Here are several preventive measures to remedy the powdery mildew problem. Always start your impatiens plants in a well-cleaned container or hanging basket. Fill the container with fresh new potting medium. For an organic preventive measure, spray each week with a mixture of two tablespoons of baking soda to one quart of water. Use a spray bottle like glass cleaner comes in (or any type sprayer bottle). Spray a layer of mist over the impatiens once each week on a sunny, warm day. Feed with Miracle-Gro liquid plant food or Miracle-Gro pep sticks (two per container once a month). Water the impatiens every day.

Almanac for the month of May 2020. The full moon of May was Friday and was named Full Flower Moon. Mothers Day is today, May 10. The moon reaches its last quarter on Thursday, May 14. Armed Forces Day will be Saturday, May 16. The new moon of May occurs at sunset Friday, May, 22. Memorial Day is Monday, May 25.

Making a dish of apple fritters. These apple fritters will melt in your mouth and are easy to prepare. You will need two beaten eggs, one cup sugar, one cup sour cream, four apples, cured and cut into quarter-inch cubes, one teaspoon apple pie spices, one and a half cups self-rising flour, three fourth cup milk. Mix all ingredients together. Fry on medium head in Crisco oil. Dust with powdered sugar mixed with half teaspoon apple pie spices.

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Warm days and nights of May. There are still some cool days and nights as we enter the month of May, but frost danger odds are getting less every day. It is still a good idea to hold off on setting out tomato and pepper plants or cucumbers, squash, or corn until the middle of May. A row of green beans can be planted because the ground will be warm by the time they pop out of the soil. There is still plenty of cool nip in the early days of May.

Dogwood winter is at an end. The leaves have covered the dogwoods and their white blooms have covered the forest floor and lawns. The leaves have passed the size of a squirrels ear, but it is still too cold to plant a crop of corn. Wait until the nights and soil are warmer. After all, corn is a crop that requires a 90-day growing season and you do not want to have to replant half of it. Wait until after mid-May to be assured of a great corn harvest in mid-summer.

Raising a row of royal burgundy beets. Beets love the mild temperatures of early May and respond well to soil in the May garden plot. Beets require a long growing season and should be planted soon in the spring garden. Beet seeds are very hard and need a little help to get them off to a good start. To plant beets, sow two seeds about two inches apart in a furrow about two or three inches deep, apply a layer of peat moss in the bottom of the furrow before sowing. After watering the seed and peat moss apply a second layer of peat moss and water it with the Waterwand. Add an application of Plant-tone vegetable food and hill up soil on both sides of the furrow and tamp down soil with a hoe blade.

Side dress the beets with Plant-Tone organic vegetable food once they sprout and about every 15 days and keep the soil hilled up after you feed the beets.

Setting out a container of American Bee Balm. American Bee Balm is a historic plant that we can trace all the way back to the Revolutionary War and the Boston Tea Party. During that event, the citizens of Boston raided British ships anchored in Boston Harbor and dumped their cargo of tea overboard. Then they boycotted the tea trade by making their own tea with leaves from American bee balm plants.

We wonder if it was a common wild plant in those days? You can still find this historic plant in nurseries, hardwares, and garden departments at Lowes, Walmart, Home Depot and Ace Hardware. They produce beautiful green leaves and some produce pink blooms and other varities produce lavender blooms. With just a little bit of protection they will endure our Southern winters, or you can set out these plants in large containers or pots. Water them and feed them twice a month with Flower-tone organic flower food for blooms and foliage all during the summer.

Buying packets of zinnia seed for colorful show all summer long. The racks in garden departments are filled with packets of zinnias at Walmart, Home Depot, Lowes, hardwares and at many supermarkets. They are available in every color of the rainbow except blue. Maybe some day some biologist or seed researcher will develop a blue zinnia like Burpee developed a white Marigold years ago.

Zinnia seeds cost less than $2 a packet in colors of red, yellow, white, orange, pink rose, green, purple, lavender, and peppermint stripes. Zinnias also are available in several different sizes. They attract hummingbirds, finches, bees, butterflies, and other pollinators.

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LINCOLN, R.I., June 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --With more than two decades of customer satisfaction in bringing healthy, organic meal solutions to homes across the country, Wildtree is writing its next chapter by looking to its heritage. Today, the company announced that original founder, Leslie Montie, has rejoined Wildtree as an Advisor to reinvigorate the purpose-driven mission of the company.

Like so many American entrepreneurs, Wildtree was started out of a garage with the heartfelt intention of a Mom creating meal solutions for her children who have dietary restrictions.She realized this was a challenge and not readily available or cost effective."A trip to the grocery store was challenging, and also heartbreaking, as I simply wanted to provide my children with the nourishment they needed without causing them harm," says Montie. "At the time, organic proteins and produce had limited availability, but the true roadblock was with seasonings and mixes and the mysterious 'other spices' listed on the labels."

Wildtree grew from those humble beginnings to expand their product offerings to include spice blends, sauces and dressings, oils and meal kits, all with health-conscious and time-strapped people at the forefront of its mission. Unique to the industry even today, Wildtree has garnered certifications as USDA certified organic, GMO free, gluten-free, Star-K kosher certified, and 100% peanut free facility while also offering vegetarian, low-sugar and vegan options. Additionally, all manufacturing is maintained to the certification standards set by Safe Quality Foods(SQF), a rigorous farm-to-fork food safety and quality program.

Recently acquired by Altair Acquisitions, LLC, Wildtree will be expanding its product offerings to meet the expanding and ever-changing needs of individuals seeking products that align with their lifestyle and beliefs. Whether that be the organic, health minded individual or family looking to get a delicious and healthy meal on the table with ease, Wildtree has products to suit most any need.

"As someone who has spent the better part of my career in product consumer packaged goods and food service, what really stood out to me was the heritage and principles of the company of creating great tasting and delicious products, innovation, and the certifications and quality standards which are so relevant and on trend with the way people live and eat today," said Wildtree CEO, Russell Ray. "With a multitude of health-forward options on the market today, I hope consumers will look at Wildtree products through a different lens as meal solutions that have been time-tested and maintained with the highest quality standards, but born from the purest of motivations; a mothers love or her children."

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With Michigans stay-at-home order lifted, businesses across the state are opening to the public. This includes localfarmersmarkets.As these markets begin to host customersacross Greater Lansing,some rules have been implemented in order to keep both shoppers and sellerssafe.

Here is a list of local farmers markets that are opening, along withtheir individual plansto help prevent spread of COVID-19.

Thursdays July 20, August 20 and October 1, 9 a.m. 2 p.m., on the Capitol lawn, Lansing

Preventative measures: Compliance with all city, state and federal regulations regarding business operations in response to COVID-19. The Michigan Farmers Market Association will also incorporateCOVID-19 best practices and recommendationsincluding wider spacing between stalls and wider aisles to allow for social distancing, limiting products sold to only include food, personal hygiene productsand pet treats/food, requiring the use of disposable gloves for market staff that handle money, tokens or vouchers, limiting customer access to products, providing hand washing stations and hand sanitizer at entrances and throughout the market, providing regular sanitization for frequently touched surfaces, suspending sampling and nonessential events, communicating and reinforcing best practices for washing hands and covering coughs and sneezes and providing visible signage detailing CDC-recommended safety and behavior guidelines.

Thursdays 3 -7 p.m., beginning June 18 at 800 WestBarnes Avenue, Lansing

Preventative measures:Abiding by social distancing measures, requiring masks for all vendors, volunteers and visitors,limiting vendors' booths to one personat a time with chalk markings made for those waiting in line,providing hand washing and hand sanitizer stations, asking customers tolimit unnecessary contact with products. Events that result in congregation at the market will besuspendeduntil further notice.

Wednesdays2:30-7 p.m., at the corner of Fairview Avenue and East Michigan Avenue, Lansing

Preventativemeasures:Abiding by social distancing measures, requiring customers to wear masks and asking that they clean their mask and avoid touching it while at the market,limiting vendors' booths to one personat a time andasking customerslimit unnecessary touchingofproducts, toallow the vendor to bag items, to limit the size of shopping groups andto wash their hands at providedsinks.

Jennifer Knapp carries out a selection of goods purchased at the Allen Farmers Market on Wednesday, April 1, 2020, in Lansing. The market remains open during coronavirus restrictions.(Photo: Nick King/Lansing State Journal)

Monday-Friday 10 a.m. 6 p.m.,5408 West Grand River Avenue,Lansing

Preventativemeasures:Requiring customers and employees to wear masks, enforcing amaximum of three patrons at a timealongside social distancing measures, taking advantage ofregular sanitization measures with providedhand sanitizer,usingonly new packaging,stagingproductswith the customers name for curbside pick up and providing contactless loading oforders.

Sundays 10 a.m. 2 p.m., Valley Court Park,300 Valley Court, East Lansing

Preventative measures: Asking customers to stay home if they are feeling ill orif theyhave had contact with someone infected with COVID-19or traveled outside the state in the previous14 days,abiding by social distancing measures,requiring masksforallcustomers,asking customers tolimitgroupsizes to atwo-personmaximum,providing hand sanitizer for customers, vendors and staff,not permitting non-service animals,asking customers not to bringreusableshopping bagsandlimiting thenumber ofshoppersdirected through the marketsone entrance and exit.

Saturdays 8 a.m. 2 p.m. with Wednesday markets expected to be added in July, Meridian Mall,1982 West Grand River Avenue, Okemos

Preventative measures:Wider spacing between vendors boothsto support social distancing measures,requiring face masks for vendors, customers and staff, andasking customersnot to bring their own bag,to limitactivities to just shopping and to keepshopping groupsata maximum of two people.Certain vendorswill beallowing pre-orders for curbsidepickupnorth of the market.Pets will not be allowed at the market.

A woman and three children check out the plants and flowers available at the Meridian Farmers Market Saturday, May 16, 2020.(Photo: Robert Killips | Lansing State Journal)

Saturdays from 9 a.m. 1 p.m., Jaycee Park,525 EastRiver Street, Grand Ledge

Preventative measures: Abiding by social distancing measures, requiring face masks for vendors who are medically able to wear one,recommendingvendors use disposablegloves and limit customer access to products, providing hand sanitizer, discontinuing sampling andrestricting customers from eating food on-site, communicating best practices for handwashing and covering coughs and sneezes and providing visible signagelisting CDC recommended safety and behavior guidelines.

Saturdays from 9 a.m. 2 p.m. at2150 Cedar Street,Holt (Note: Friday mini markets are suspended until laternotice)

Preventative measures:Abiding by social distancing requirements,requiring face masks for allvendors, customers and employees,providing hand sanitizer throughout the shopping area, limiting shopping groups to four members, requiring children be accompanied by an adult,directing theflow of shoppers with one entrance, one exit and directional signage and limiting activity in the facility to shopping.

Chuck Grinnell, Manager of the Holt Farmers Market, says the market is now open on Saturdays from 9am-2pm. All customers and vendors must wear masks and any children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult.(Photo: John Hayhoe)

Thursdays3-6 p.m (observing shortened hours during the month of June) at 136NorthBridge Street, Dimondale

Preventative measures: Abiding by social distancing measures and providing regular sanitization.Masks will be worn by employees and vendors and are encouraged for customers. Customers areencouraged to shop solo and to limitunnecessarycontact withproducts.Live music and other events will not be present.

Sundays 10 a.m. 2 p.m., McCormick Park,123 High Street, Williamston

Preventative measures: Abiding by social distancing measures, requiring the use of masksand gloves by customers, vendors and market staff,limiting vendors to those selling essential items,limiting the number of customers entering the marketthrough one entrance and exit, taking part in regular sanitization and screenings,limiting sale of hot food to take-out only, eliminating nonessential areas and activities, offering pre-ordersand pickup alternatives for customers andproviding visible signage on universal personal precautions recommended to prevent the spread and contraction of COVID-19.

Thursdays 3-7 p.m., James Couzens Memorial Park, 13751 Main Street, Bath

Preventative measures:Asking customers to stay home if they are feeling ill orif theyhave had contact with someone infected with COVID-19or traveled outside the state in the previous14 days, abiding by social distancing measures, encouraging customers who are medically able to tolerate a mask to wear a mask or face covering,limiting vendors' booths to one personat a time, providing hand sanitizer at each vendor's table, asking customers tolimit shopping groups to two members,not to bring their own shopping bags, to follow CDC hygiene guidelines including frequent handwashing, to keep market visits simple and shortand to try to avoid the need for making change by bringing small bills or paying with a credit card. Customers were also asked not to consume food at the market and to consider preordering by calling the market manager Tom Straka at 517-281-7402. The pick up lane is located along Main Street.

Saturdays beginning July 11, 9 a.m.1 p.m., Austin Park Pavilion,320 West Ash Street, Mason

Preventative Measures: Requiring the use of masks and providing visible signage to help guidesocial distancing.

Postponed until early July, normally found at 414 East Main Street, Dewitt

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The COVID-19 outbreak has affect the supply chains of farm businesses in Bangladesh, but small enterprise Prakritik Krishi Biponon Kendra has quickly adapted. Zakir Hossain reports. This is the second in a series of stories from Voices from the Frontline by ICCCAD and CDKN.

Delowar Jahan had never imagined a scenario like a global pandemic hitting Bangladesh, and the consequent imposition of a country-wide lockdown. My immediate response was to send my family to our village home and work out a plan to maintain the supply chain of [my organic food enterprise] Prakritik Krishi, says Delowar. As the lockdown was being discussed at the government level, along with military deployment to control mass movement, Delowar and his colleagues began making contingency plans, coordinating and discussing potential strategies over the phone.

Initially there was uncertainty about the regulations to come under lockdown, especially regarding the transport systems on which the organisation so heavily depended. The safety of staff members at the Dhaka centre was also an issue, in case an infection broke out and inevitably spread within the premises. As more people were leaving Dhaka for their villages, there was also the possibility of theft at the centre due to lack of security protocols, as well as a potential food crisis looming in the city. Hence, it was decided that all staff members, valuable items, and other logistical matters would be transferred to their farm in Manikganj, a district close to the capital.

The closure of markets and the initial transport bans presented a different set of challenges for farmers across the country. They were facing loss of income due to the lockdown. A farmer from the district of Jhinaidah, Alamgir, told us, Before the pandemic, we would supply vegetables worth Tk. 20,000 to Dhaka every week that was transported by bus. But now we are no longer able to send supplies to Dhaka.

Farmers launch local, collective initiative

To sustain their livelihoods, the local farmers in the area collaborated to launch a collective initiative: a temporary, make-shift vegetable market near the village mosque to serve the local community. The idea was initially opposed by the local administration in fear of breaching social distancing protocols. But the farmers persisted with their efforts with the local government, and it was agreed that community police would be appointed to enforce and monitor social distance measures so that the market could operate.

For the very poor local producers and farmers, Prakritik Krishi created an emergency fund and collected donations from their clients, who were happy to provide support. Mobilising emergency funds is an organisational preparedness practice that Prakritik Krishi had inculcated within their business, which has been in place during past crises to support and sustain farmers. The emergency fund also creates collaboration between farmers through exchange of seeds, providing fertilizer support and basic food supply in addition to cash provision to the farming community in the face of crisis.

Back at the organisation, the first week of lockdown was very challenging for the business, as the Dhaka centre was shut down and 50% of the clients had left the capital. Inspiration struck when Delowars brother, who lives near London in the UK, shared how the emergency food markets were operating there despite the lockdown. My brother helped me realise that like healthcare, food is also a necessity for people right now. That made me rethink the whole situation and come up with a new strategy, he says.

We started providing an online service, and mobilised people at the Manikganj farm. As soon as we heard that food transport was permitted, it was decided that three staff members would travel to Dhaka in a rented vehicle for deliveries. We are now maintaining operational support from Manikganj, and delivering food supplies twice a week to Dhaka, providing weekly food support to a hundred families.

Manikganj was now at the centre of the organisations operations, with farming and logistics both being carried out from there. It was all hands to deck, with everyone engaged in both farming and packaging. This led to a more cost effective approach and efficient monitoring of food production. It has always been the organisations goal to provide to clients directly from the farm: this was now a reality thanks to the pandemic!

Organisational culture of preparing for crises

Even in these uncertain times, the organisation was able to implement a coordinated approach to restart their operations, and that, too, in a cost effective manner. As Delowar mentions, At Prakritik Krishi, we cultivate a culture of preparing for unforeseeable economic crises. As such, we primarily focus on sustaining our farms so that if there is ever a crisis that threatens our livelihoods, we can at least produce our own food for our families and survive. The very idea of sustainability was so deeply ingrained within the organisation, that Delowar and his colleagues were able to innovate on opportunities during the crisis. However, Delowar believes that support from the government and other stakeholders are also essential to sustain food security.

One such business opportunity arose when they observed that as a means of self-sufficiency, people were keen to grow vegetables on their rooftops or balconies during the lockdown. Prakritik Krishi is now distributing and delivering seeds from their farms. We have received positive responses and the demand is increasing, Delowar proudly says of this new initiative that not only diversifies their product range and source of income, but also addresses the current needs of their clients. Delowar adds, It takes 14 days for most leafy vegetables to grow, which is the exact duration of the COVID-19 quarantine. You can grow your own food with nurture and care, and reconnect with nature!

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The pandemic has offered a glimpse of renewed hope and increased resilience amongst communities around the world. It has forced us to explore creative methods to sustain our livelihoods and social responsibilities. When left with no choice, we often look towards collaborative methods of sustenance. Bringing together our unique dispositions into a collective response has been our survival instinct since the beginning of civilisation. This is how the local farmers took forward an idea of creating opportunity to sustain their livelihoods, and how Prakritik Krishi was able to not only maintain their supply chain but also achieve their long-standing goal of creating a direct link between their farms and our plates.

About Zakir Hossain and Delowar Jahan

Zakir Hossain is the founder of Farmers Voice (Krisoker Sor). He advocates globally on farmers rights, especially in the areas of climate change, disaster risk reduction and Agenda 2030. Farmers Voice is a small agriculture research institute funded by the local community dedicated to holistic local development, that connects experiential research with policy discourse.

Prakritik Krishi began operations more than a decade ago when a young journalism graduate, Delowar Jahan, decided to follow his curiosity into the methods of farming and took the challenge of creating harmony between agricultural practices and nature, by implementing non-chemical and eco friendly methods of farming.

Prakritik Krishi and Farmers Voice are on the same pathway of the global organic farming movement.

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It is no secret that the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic has brought widespread disruption to the global supply chain stemming disastrous food shortages and rising prices. In the aftershock of the pandemic, it is clear to see that the global economy and infrastructure is more fragile than we realise. Evidently necessary measures need to be put into place to help strengthen the food supply chain in preparation for any future crises.

Since the dawning of COVID-19 many UK fruit and vegetable growers are investigating new growing methods to increase outputs and ensure supermarkets and grocery stores have a consistent accessibility to important resources to provide the population.

National Statistics (2018) show the UK relies on receiving almost half (47%) of the national food supply from overseas nations, with the highest value of imports (11.1B) arriving in the form of fruit and vegetables. Originally, the theory behind such a diverse network was to enhance food security through trading with stable nations thus allowing for a constant source of provisions. However, the sudden impacts of global lockdown have proven otherwise.

The overbearing dependence on imports paired with a surge in demand for fresh produce has proved the importance of local farming. With a lack of labour in the UK, the automation of farming and harvesting seems to be an inevitable and welcome solution.

Brits have always cautiously questioned the sources of supermarket produce, and even more so since the arrival of the pandemic. With the newfound need for contactless delivery and harvesting, Vertical Farming systems seem to be the answer to the issue.

The UK relies on the global food network due to the seasonal temperate climate, counting on nations with optimal growing conditions to keep staple fruit and vegetables on supermarket shelves, however climate is not a problem in the realm of indoor farming.

Vertical farming systems allow growers to produce in a fully controllable climate, safe from the natural elements such as wind rain and frost, meaning the variety of crops now able to be grown in the UK is increased significantly. Additionally, the secure environment results in zero pests and invasive bacteria, which allows the grower to provide organic pesticide free produce, which paired with an automated growth and harvesting system will allow for minimal human contact, something heading the agenda in the current crisis.

Indoor farming systems also address another key UK issue: a dwindling availability in useable farmland. Vertical farming systems can be implemented into disused buildings or on barren land such as barns, car parks and warehouses, provided there is a steady power and water supply. Although it may look smaller than your average outdoor farm, a vertical system can equate to 4-6 X more growth surface than your standard glasshouse or polytunnel area. 1 acre of vertical farm on average produces 4-6 acres depending on the crop density and cycle duration.

Since the arrival of the virus, major cities across the planet have experienced less smog and a reduction in pollution levels. Growing vertically can act as a major contributor too: Although many media outlets have written of indoor farming negatively due to its energy usage, the reduction in other aspects of pollution and waste conservation have not been as widely reported. Its local production and harvesting of crops reduce the amount of food miles, meaning a decrease in the growers contribution to the global carbon footprint. Research has found that vertical farms lower overall CO2emissions by 67-92% when compared with greenhouses.

Vertical Farming systems allow produce to grow with 70-95% less water required for normal plant cultivation. Taking lettuce as an example: open-field production requires 250L/kg of lettuce and greenhouse systems consume 20L/kg. However, vertical systems come in at a minimal 1L/kg of lettuce, with the only water extracted during the growth cycle being that of the plants consumption. Any leftover water is recycled back through the filtering system and re-introduced to the irrigation.

In response to the pandemic thriving nations are realising the benefits of urbanised farming, identifying Vertical Farming technology as a response to the widespread food shortages. Singapore, one of the most affluent Asian countries, have been quick to adopt indoor and rooftop farms with aims to locally produce 30% of the nations food by 2030. Singapore law official Ang Wei Neng has recently stated that during the coronavirus outbreak, "it would be wise for us to think of how to invest in homegrown food" realising that Vertical Farming can act as a safety net in times of drought and crisis.

In a recent study, the University of Sheffield expressed that despite the pressure on land to build homes and roads, there is more than enough urban land available within UK cities to produce an ample, and more importantly, sustainable quota of fresh produce.

Although the world has been slow off the mark to implement an effective amount of Vertical Farming systems, large-scale UK distributors such as Ocado are already including indoor farming into their business models, sharing the feeling that their hyper-automation and promise of diverse locality will soon see the technology embedded into the global food supply chain.

Bridge Vertical Farming partners with Urban Crop Solutions to provide hi-tech automated solutions which include the likes of container farms, research facilities and bespoke vertical farming structures to cater for individual needs.

For more information: Bridge Vertical Farming Keynor Lane Chalk Lane Chichester PO20 7LL 01243 641789 bridge@urbancropsolutions.co.uk http://www.bridgeverticalfarming.co.uk

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The organic sector has voiced concerns over the Governments public money for public goods farming strategy, fearing it is ignoring the value of organic options. The English Organic Forum (EOF), which represents organic farming organisations and businesses, is concerned that whilst the governments proposal has many valid points, it hasnt yet specifically recognised the important role that organic farming can play in delivering public goods or the vital importance of whole farming systems.

It comes as National Trust highlighted the success of organic farming in its recently published Farm Health Check report. The study offered a full health check into the biodiversity, carbon levels and levels of public accessibility at Wimpole Estate Home Farm, the only farm the National Trust manages directly.

The farm, which has been organic for 12 years, has seen a number of achievements, including a doubling in the number of breeding pairs of skylarks and linnets in the last six years, a 150 percent increase in hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants), and the recording to over 1,100 invertebrate species, including 95 rare and protected species that are vital to pollinating crops and preying on pests. The report also showed a total carbon balance of -2,260 tonnes of CO2 per year achieved through the amount of organic matter in the soil which soaks up carbon, the number of trees and grown out hedges.

The report provides further evidence to support the merits of organic farming, according to Mark Harold, National Trust director of land and nature. This is a story of hope and optimism and the Governments forthcoming environmental land management scheme will be crucial to replicating this across the farming industry, as will the new Agriculture Bill in prioritising government support for this scheme.

Speaking about the importance of the report and the need for the Government to take note, EOF co-chairman Christopher Stopes added: We are delighted with the National Trust results. We can see that the Trust is supportive of sustainable approaches across all farming practices and the results from the farm at Wimpole clearly show that organic fits into that very well. And their publication is timely because the whole farm system approach demonstrated so well at Wimpole has not yet been recognised in the governments proposals.

The Trusts Wimpole estate is a mixed farm with a predominantly arable system that integrates cereals with fertility building clover leys, green manures and livestock. The team, led by farm manager Callum Weir, believes the recent results offer a good indicator of a healthy ecosystem thats a direct result of their holistic approach, proving that nature-friendly farming and a profitable farm business can go hand-in-hand.

It is this whole system approach that brings production, ecology and environment together in a way which optimises food production alongside the delivery of public goods, Stopes said.

Providing a menu of techniques which farmers can choose to take up has merit. However, as Wimpole Farm demonstrates, the whole farm system approach is critical and we are deeply concerned that this is being overlooked by Defra.

Stopes comments are supported by John Pawsey, chair of the NFU Organic Forum, who farms 1,500 hectares in Suffolk: This is an exciting time for all farmers but especially for anyone considering organic farming. The National Trust has shown at Wimpole how organic farming makes commercial and environmental sense. I hope the Government will take note of these impressive results and put in place a framework which allows organic farming to flourish in this country as it has elsewhere in the world.

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