Careful cooking boosts nutrition and flavor of vegetables
The piece urges mindful prep of vegetables and fruits as components of a balanced diet, detailing three vegetable groups rich in vitamins and minerals. It explains best practices for fresh, canned, and frozen produce, including minimal water, uncovering to preserve color, and avoiding baking soda to keep nutrients intact. It also promotes baking in their skins and outlines braising, stir frying, and steaming methods. The article closes with Extension Service gardening course dates in Vermont towns Bennington Manchester and Readsboro, with contact details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Manchester
Readsboro
Vermont launches Rural Environmental Conservation Program
A new Rural Environmental Conservation Program will start in Vermont in early March with nearly 400000 in federal funds. Long term cost sharing 3 to 10 years and 50 to 75 percent of costs will help farmers establish grass cover diversions ponds and timber stand improvements while SCS provides planning and technical help. The program targets six counties for the Forest Incentive Program with later expansion possible and emphasizes non industrial private forest lands management.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Vermont
A.F. Heald
State Agricultural Conservation and Stabilization Service
Heald
Lamoille
Orange
Rutland
Washington
Windham
Windsor
ASC
Department of Forest and Parks
South Burlington
REAP
ASCS
Soil Conservation Service
SCS
Craig Right
James Wilkinson
4 H Mexican project reported
Patricia Allen details a 1971 4 H youth program in Chiapas Mexico with the Inter-American Rural Youth Program involving two volunteer leaders James Riley and the author. She notes club activity irregular meetings due to few trained personnel, governor recognition for members, and hopes for club needs like a roof and a clubhouse as she observes clubs near San Cristobal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patricia Allen
Chiapas
Mexico
James Riley
Kansas
Vermont
San Cristobal
Ice Capades Trip Planned by Extension Homemakers
The Bennington County Extension Homemakers Council sponsors a trip to the Ice Capades on Wednesday evening April 3. Cost includes dinner at Mario's, show ticket, bus fare and gratuities. Contact Mrs Ruth Clough Dorset 867 5329 or Extension Service Office 447 7582. Registration deadline March 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington County Extension Homemakers Council
Mario’s
Ruth Clough
Dorset
Extension Service
Tree seedling sale announced by Vermont forests department
Tree planting plans move ahead as the Vermont Department of Forests and Parks offers evergreen seedlings. Species include pines spruces fir and larch with seedlings ranging from 4 inches to 24 inches in height and prices from 2 or 9 per tree. Minimum order is 100 trees and inquiries go to the Bennington Federal Building at 447 7582.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James M
White County Forester
Vermont Department of Forests and Parks
Federal Building
Bennington
EIA awareness and Vermont regulation push hearing set
Dr J R Wadsworth urges Vermont horse owners to join a March 6 public hearing on proposed EIA control and eradication regulations. The article notes EIA spread factors, signs, testing via the Coggins test at UVM, and the need to test all horses to prevent outbreaks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.R. Wadsworth
UVM Extension
Burlington
Vermont
United States
Vermont Department of Agriculture
Montpelier
State Diagnostic Laboratory
Department of Animal Pathology
Hills Science Building
UVM
High food prices push grocery basket to record in January
Washington reports the typical family food basket rose 30 dollars to 1680 in January, a new annual record. Analysts warn further increases are likely with projections of 5 percent higher for Q1 and about 12 percent for 1974. Middlemen reportedly cushion some impact by trimming margins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Farmers Special Fuel Program Linked for Conservation
Burlington information program links formation conservation and allocation for farmers. ASCS urges farmers to tell dealers their needs so suppliers can secure extra fuel. To qualify, farmers must prove ongoing conservation measures and certify priority use for ag production. County ASCS offices provide assistance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
State Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
A.F. Heald
Heald
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Environmental Protection Agency
ASCS
Candy bars through time face higher prices and history
Washington reports that U S food economists foresee a 15 cent candy bar amid rising costs for cocoa sugar peanuts and labor. The piece traces candy’s history from early wrappers in 1911 to mass production during World War I and reveals a long appetite for sweets across civilizations and eras.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D.C
United States Department of Agriculture
National Geographic
Nile
Europe
Levant
Victoria
Milk cooperative seeks relief from high costs
Eastern Milk Producers Cooperative says the butter powder formula for Class II milk pricing depresses prices to farmers in the New York New Jersey market and across the five northeast markets. They report substantial losses, farm closures, and declining production as grain costs rise and cows culled, with 1973 and 1974 figures showing declines in producers and output.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D.C
Eastern Milk Producers Cooperative
Eastern
Dairy Farmer Cooperative
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
Joseph C. Mathis
Northeast
New York- New Jersey
New York-New Jersey
James Edgerton Named Extension Service Coordinator in Vermont
James Edgerton has been appointed the new Extension Service area coordinator for southern Vermont overseeing operations in Bennington Windham Windsor and Rutland counties after a recent realignment of the Extension Service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Edgerton
Vermont
Bennington
Windham
Windsor
Rutland
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