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Real Food: Honey and Urban Beekeeping

Sure, you’ve seen plenty of bee hives out and about, but how does urban beekeeping really work? To answer this question, we took a visit to an urban bee farm in Seattle. Where Does Honey Come From? The idea for visiting a bee farm came from a perfectly innocent question. When one of our kids […]

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Real Food: Olive Oil and Olive Farming

We are olive oil addicts in the Jolly Tomato household. And yet olive farming has always been something of a mystery to us. Sure, we use olive oil in just about every meal. But how do you get oil out of a bunch of olives? That’s a question that we were determined to answer as […]

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Real Food: The Peach Picking and Packing Process

Peaches are a summer favorite, but unless you have your own peach tree you have to rely on farmers to get peaches to you. How does the commercial peach picking process work? Given that California grows 70 percent of U.S.-grown fresh peaches and 93 percent of fresh nectarines and plums, we thought we should learn. […]

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Blueberry Picking and Packing

You may buy countless plastic clamshells of blueberries, but have you ever wondered about the blueberry picking and packing process? How do those blueberries actually make it from the plant to the package? We took a Real Food Summer road trip to Berry Lady Farms in Kingsburg, CA (along with friends from the California Farm […]

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Real Food: Bellanave Dairy

Editor’s note: In this issue of Real Food Summer, we visited Bellanave Dairy, a 7,000-acre farm near Bakersfield, CA. “How do you get milk from a cow?” goes one of the running jokes in our house. “You just right-click on it.” Of course our kids don’t really think this, but they might as well, considering […]

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Real Food – A Series About Where Your Food Comes From

How much do you know about what you’re eating? We’ve got a new feature we call Real Food. Throughout this series we look at all kinds of “real” food – i.e., where it comes from, how it’s made, and what’s in it. Primarily, this series focuses on unprocessed or minimally processed foods with a good […]

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