Saturday, July 4, 2009
Dry Farming Creates Delicious Crops in Water-Starved California : TreeHugger
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Gittes,
ReplyDeletePrecious and few, great links, as usual.
This time it was the article entitled,
"Dry Farming Creates Delicious Crops in Water-Starved California"
which contained the passage,
“"Our customers went nuts," says Lehrer. "They're much smaller than a grocery store apple," Krueger explained. "[They're] denser, crisper, they have a sweet-tart balance." Grocery store apples are much larger, they say, because they're filled with the extra water from irrigation.”
This lead me to think about; grapes, resveratrol, fungi, and plant stress responses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resveratrol
The fruit of a drought stressed plant, although fewer in number and smaller in size, greater in nutritional value (“yeah, the stuff ain’t diluted”).
claudio