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How Does it Grow? Cauliflower

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Farmers have to do WHAT to keep our cauliflower white? Travel to one of America's biggest organic farms to uncover the secrets of growing cauliflower — including one very labor-intensive step to satisfy consumer expectation for color (though it has nothing at all to do with taste!). And how our expectations can lead to food waste right in the field.


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Does the yellow cauliflower actually get thrown away or is it used for something, like pickling, or a local food pantry donation, or fertilizer or food for farm animals?
05/11/2015 • 
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