Avocado Oil: The 'Olive Oil Of The Americas'?

SAN DIEGO, April 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Atmospheric oxygen facilitated the evolution and complexity of terrestrial organisms, including human beings, because it allowed nutrients to be used more efficiently ...

Deadly avocado tree fungus turns up in South Florida | Photo

A strangler is stalking the avocado trees of South Florida, threatening backyard trees as well as thousands of acres of commercial groves.

Fungus that kills avocado trees turns up in South Florida

A strangler is stalking the avocado trees of South Florida, threatening backyard trees as well as thousands of acres of commercial groves.

Cohasset center offers kitchen tour

Cohasset’s community center is showing off the fantastic kitchens in five of the town’s beautiful houses in order to build a kitchen of its own. Friday’s “Cohasset Kitchen Tour and Tasting” will raise money to finish a playground for the South Shore Community Center’s nursery school and rebuild the center’s outdated kitchen, which serves preschoolers and seniors and offers adult ...

Transitional Special Agricultural Water Rate extended for two years

Thursday, May 10 th , 2012 Issue 19, Volume 16. The San Diego County Water Authority’s transitional Special Agricultural Water Rate has been extended for an additional two years.