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Chia Tai Farm by Chia Tai Group, Thailand’s innovative agricultural company, proudly introduces its newest cucumber variety “MinicukeLisa Cucumbers” to the market to let consumers enjoy fresh-from-farm delicacy today. Cucumbers are generally well-liked by consumers as they are high in nutrients and great for health whether consumed fresh or cooked. Chia Tai is recognized as the leader in cucumber market because it is the first to successfully developed F1 Hybrid cucumber “Model” to th...

bikkurim – or the first fruits of the “seven species” grown in Eretz Yisrael (wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives, and dates) – were brought to the Beit HaMikdash in Jerusalem and offered as a sacrificial gift to Hashem on Shavuot. Jewish National Fund label sheet depicting the Seven Species. The farmers bringing the bikkurim to the Temple were obligated to recite a formulaic “avowal” summarizing Jewish history from the time of Abraham through the ...

A big plus is that Beit Alpha cucumber is one of the most disease-resistant varieties known. Paul Barbano April 28, 2021 The beauty of a mixed garden is similar to the beauty of a mixed population of humans. As humans, we quickly take what is foreign and incorporate it into our lives. Take Yiddish, which most Americans speak without knowing it. So, an undesirable or foolish person is a “schmuck.” And we have all heard a salesmans “spiel” or talk. But when a man accused of murd...

The New York Review of Books recently devoted a lot of space to a review of “The Sword and the... After the destruction of the Temple, the center of Jewish life in Palestine shifted from Jerusalem and its surroundings, to the Galilee. This is clear from the large number of impressive synagogue ruins in evidence today at sites such as Beit Alpha, Bar-am, and Capernaum, but above all, the extensive ruins and mosaics that have been uncovered in recent decades at Tzippori (the Roman Sepphoris). I...

The Zimbabwe Independent By Yael Even Or In the past three years, a new slang word has come to be popular in the Zimbabwean capital. I’ve heard it in professional settings and at parties. It’s a conjugation of the word nikuv, to say that you were screwed. For example, “Are you trying to nikuv me?” or “I just got a flat tire on my way to this meeting, I’m so nikuved!” Nikuv in Hebrew means poking a hole or punching, as in a punched card, but no ...

In December, Sakata Central Asia organised a Beit Alpha cucumber field day in the Navoi Region of Uzbekistan to present our high-performance Rebel F1 hot to cold season variety.   Dealers, growers and…