CNY Super Foods: Greens

Spinach is packed with essential nutrients, and eating it will help you meet your daily need for calcium, iron, folate, vitamins A and K.

A Chicago study of 3,700 elderly people found that those who ate three servings a day of vegetables, especially green leafy vegetables such as spinach, slowed their mental decline by 40 percent compared to those who only ate one vegetable a day. Researchers deduced that eating spinach along with other vegetables may help your brain function 5 years younger.

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CNY Super Foods: Greens

Agriculture Colleges Sell Cow Herds to Cut Costs

The fields and long red barns at the University of Vermont will soon house fewer cows as low milk prices, high costs and budget cuts have forced the university to sell its herd.

Other universities are doing the same, or looking for other ways to cut costs, as high feed, fuel and labor prices make it difficult to keep animals during tight economic times. The sales are taking place despite growing enrollment in agriculture programs. The herds are mainly used for faculty research.

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Heat Strikes Farms, Consumers

Record heat that has been baking much of the nation for weeks is likely to have lasting effects on farm crops and consumers in the Northeast.

"It's been devastating," says Carl Shaffer, president of the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau. "The lack of rain combined with close to 100-degree temperatures just takes a toll on crops."

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Heat Strikes Farms, Consumers

Truck Farming 2.0 | NYC’s Mobile C.S.A.

Holton Farms Truck in NYC

Courtesy of Holton FarmsThe Farm Truck from Holton Farms on one of its 22 stops in Manhattan.
It was only a matter of time before two of New York’s biggest culinary fads — food trucks and Greenmarket fare — united. As of May, the Farm Truck from Holton Farms has roamed the city’s streets, stocked with the Vermont farm’s pickling cucumbers, radishes and yellow squash, along with other regional products from up north, like Walpole Creamery’s raw-milk maple walnut ice cream and Vermont Coffee Company’s fair-trade, organic beans.

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