Tag: Agriculture

  • Welikandagama, Welimada Organic Farm – Sri Lanka

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    People all over the world are becoming aware of the deleterious effect of pesticides on human health.  The following article is about a local peoples’ fight to restore  their natural watershed in  Uma Oya, Welikandagama in Sri Lanka and the agricultural specialist Athula Priyantha’s efforts to further rejuvenate it through farming without chemicals.  (Dr. Prasanna Cooray’s…

  • Chicago Urban Farm Receives USDA Organic Certification

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    The FarmedHere urban farming company, which has been successfully conducting urban farming work in the Chicago area since 2011, has received USDA organic certification. The organic vertical farming practice makes use of derelict warehouses to produce food for the community. The company recently expanded with a new 90,000 square foot post-industrial building in Bedford Park,…

  • Top Thirteen Reasons to Avoid GMO Foods

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    Dr. Chandra’s article in today’s The Canadian clearly lays out what GMO foods are , why they are not safe for consumption and what the implications are for the environment: Genetically modified food or GMO is the food stuff prepared from genetically altered organisms, generally from modified crops by altering the DNA by means of…

  • What the Russians can teach us about growing organic crops!

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    Christina Sarich at Infowars.com touts the success of small scale organic farming in Russia and encourages Americans to learn from it: On a total of about 20 million acres managed by over 35 million Russian families, Russians are carrying on an old-world technique, which we Americans might learn from. They are growing their own organic crops –…

  • One More Reason to Eat Organic: We’re running out of fertilizer

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    AUTHOR: JULIE M. RODRIGUEZ One of the most frustrating aspects of the organic food “debate” is the fact that the conversation seems to be stuck debating whether organic food is more nutritionally dense than conventionally-grown food. So when studies come out showing that you won’t get more vitamins from eating organic, conventional growers use that to bash organic…