(Banerjee & Duflo, 2011, 40) Developing ways to pack foods that people like to eat with additional nutrients, and coming up with new strains of nutritious and tasty crops that can be grown in a wider range of environments, need to become priorities for food technology, on an equal footing with raising productivity.
Blueberries are about as far out of season as they get in most of the northern hemisphere, but coastal farms like Forbidden Fruit Orchards in Lompoc can produce a very valuable and tasty secondary crop in late fall and winter.
Little by little, the crop grew hardier, tastier, more prolific.
The work and effort will be worth it when you get bumper crops of organic, diverse and tasty fresh food.
Simply sprinkle over the ground according to package directions for higher yields of tastier and more nutritious crops.
And the leaves of some root crops like radish and carrot are tasty and tender when small, extending your choice even further.
Would you rather have a plant that gives you more watery tomatoes, or less, absurdly tasty ones?" Power currently dry-farms about half his crops, including tomatoes, squash, potatoes and pinto beans.
Rabbits and deer, however, find soybeans, like peas and other beans, a tasty dessert; edamame have even been recommended as a trap crop to lure them away from other vegetables.
But in Britain there is a bumper crop of our wild native hazelnuts, and these are tasty and highly nutritious; rich in folate, iron, vitamins, healthy oils and protein.
But although excited by the findings, he cautions that researchers will need to check whether the genetic tweaks caused any side effects--such as making the plants tastier to insects--that would make them less useful for crop plants.
