Daily Archives: July 12, 2026


Kosher Dill Pickle Recipe

by Joyce Peters On my way home from school on the Lower East Side of New York City I would sometimes stop for a dill pickle from the pickle shops on Essex Street. A vendor would fish one out of a real wooden barrel, hand it to me and I […]

Make Kosher pickles

Black Fig Fly larvae

Important Black Fig Fly Warning

by Marla Koss ACTION ITEM! Please read this UCANR article, and pass on to anyone you know with a fig tree! One Saturday morning in June 2025, members of Farm2Market’s orchard crew were arriving and assembling their tools when I heard happy shouts of “Mae!” through the trees. And suddenly […]