Even pottering about in the fields involves enough back-aching bending to make you look twice at the vegetables in my fridge: if we all harvested even a bit of our own food I'm sure we would waste less.
After all, harvested coca accounts for less than 10% of the value of cocaine exports (and much less of retail value in foreign markets).
On farms, photographic sensors scan all harvested carrots and reject those that are crooked, dull, blemished, too thin or too fat.
Pomme Grise is a midseason treat, good to the end of October, but three high-flavored varieties, Spitz, Ashmead and Golden Russet, all harvested in the last week, were traditionally stored for a month or more to let starch convert to sugar, acidity drop and subtle aromatic compounds develop.
Rotherham reports that the feast for the enthronement of George Neville as Archbishop of York in 1466 included 204 cranes, 200 bitterns, 400 young heron, hundreds of ruff, woodcock and curlew, and a thousand egrets, all harvested on the Derwent Washlands south of the city, and all of them snaffled, trapped, and netted before the gun was invented.
Another lovely way to enhance a piece of plain toast, and to promote good health, would be a jar or two of Red Bee honey — clover, blueberry blossom and wild raspberry are all harvested in New York State and available at Plum Plums ($14 for 11 ounces) or through Redbee.com.com
Almost all harvested plants of all species resprouted.
All harvested trees were debarked and cross-cut for pulpwood logs.
Liverwort richness and diversity were reduced at low (10%and50%0%) retention, and composition differed between all harvested levels and the control.
Scenario 1 assumes that all harvested timber is used as wood fuel without logging residues or with logging residues of the same amount as extracted timber.
Under the scenario considering all harvested timber is used as wood fuel, CO2 emissions of timber exceed the corresponding emissions of the selected non-renewable energy sources.
