Veg Fx Index

Groceries from the Backyard: A Harvest of Savings (Carteret County News-Times)

(ARA) - The economy is tanking, grocery bills are climbing and food safety scares are on the rise. For the 43 million Americans planning a vegetable garden this year, growing your own is a matter of dollars and sense.

Shiv Sena protests vegetable price rise in Mumbai (New Kerala)

Mumbai, July 4 : Shiv Sena activists staged a protest here against the rise of vegetable on Friday.

This Week in the Garden, Sharon Hull, July 4, 2009: Last chance to start vegetables (Santa Cruz Sentinel)

Vegetable gardening is very big this year, as folks try to stretch tight dollars during the recession.

Checklist (The Sacramento Bee)

Keep your vegetable garden watered, mulched and weeded. Water before 8 a.m. to reduce the chance of fungal infection and to conserve moisture.

Railways to set up cold storages, run fruit-vegetable trains (Calcutta News)

The Indian Railways have decided to run special trains for perishables and set up cold storages and temperature-controlled cargo centres in an effort to eliminate food wastage and contribute to India's second green revolution.

SM Davao going into vegetable farming (BusinessWorld Online)

DAVAO CITY — The SM group has reserved 5,000 square meters at its backyard in the SM mall in Davao for 130 farmers to plant vegetables to be sold in the supermarket.

The forgotten vegetable (Leduc Representative)

Rhubarb may not seem to be the most appealing vegetable to showcase for baking and cooking, but the very well known but underappreciated plant can be used in various recipes.

Lead found in Michelle Obama's White House vegetable garden (u.tv)

It was meant to be a show case for healthy living, with the first lady, Michelle Obama, personally putting hand to pitch fork in a crowd of school children to dig up the first White House vegetable garden in more than 50 years.