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		<title>Market &amp; Garden Report: Strawberries</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[HOST INTRO] California produces 90% of America’s strawberries.  To grow that much fruit, the California strawberry industry uses highly toxic fumigants and fruit varieties that travel well, but lack taste. On today’s Market &#38; Garden Report, Guy Hand learns that local strawberry growers are taking a tastier, less toxic path . . . a path that also leads to an Idaho strawberry cocktail. (Hand) In 1949, Idaho grew nearly 500 acres of strawberries.  But, like most states it couldn’t compete against the gigantic California strawberry industry.  Now Idaho grows less than 30 commercial acres.  But Jo Anne Smith is one of a few farmers trying to reverse that trend.  She’s at the Capital City Public Market selling bright red local strawberries. (Smith) Well, when we moved to Idaho, it was very apparent to me that there were no strawberry stands so I thought one of these days I&#8217;m going to grow strawberries and sell &#8216;em. (Hand) Smith now grows those strawberries near Payette.  She controls bugs with beneficial insects rather than pesticides and cultivates a fragile but flavorful strawberry called Seascape. (Smith) This variety that I grow is an old, old variety developed for appearance and flavor, it does not [...]]]></description>
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