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Tale of a Scientist Farmer

By Chris Mittelstaedt on July 19, 2010

Ed Magee spends his days thinking about sunlight. When he isn’t working on his 38-acre orchard of white peaches and nectarines in Vernalis, California, he’s in a lab studying the energy of …

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Owl Update

By The FruitGuys on May 5, 2010

You can tell from the photos that the owls are feeling very much at home in the owl boxes that The FruitGuys installed at Kauffman's Fruit Farm in Bird-in-Hand, PA. We hope that we will soon be …

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The Lessons of Nature

By Chris Mittelstaedt on February 1, 2010

When we look for lessons in life, it’s not often that we can say: “Hey, check with the slime mold.” However, in The New York Times science section, there was a story about how researchers in Japan …

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