Posts Tagged: Richard Molinar

Nopales are healthful and easy to grow at home

Nopales, which can add interest to any landscape and, when harvested, a green-bean flavor to many dishes, are easy to propagate and grow in most parts of California, says UC Cooperative Extension farm advisor Richard Molinar. Molinar has produced a...

When vegetables become an adventure

Walking through a field lined with row upon row of different vegetables — many ready for the picking — can be an exercise in abundance. When you're faced with the prospects of a huge, just-picked Japanese cabbage or spicy green lo bok pulled fresh from...

Put down that zucchini! Pick up the ... bittermelon?

Welcome to August. Are you tired of summer squash yet?If your dinners have been overflowing with zucchini recently (like mine have), now might be a great time to try new varieties of otherwise familiar vegetables.One of the farm advisors I work with...

Delicious, healthful strawberries will be available soon at valley roadside stands

Central Valley strawberry stands are expected to open soon, and if the next few weeks remain dry, as expected, it looks to be an excellent production year, report UC Cooperative Extension farm advisors in Fresno, Merced and Sacramento counties. One stand...

Richard Molinar, left, and his assistant Michael Yang, center, work with a Southeast Asian strawberry grower.