Tag: organic farming
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Earth Friendly Gardens
I stopped by my friends Fred and Deb’s house the other day and noticed they had their seed catalogs out with pages of heirloom plants already bookmarked. As early as it seems, within the next couple of months Fred will have his grow light going and his heat mats out warming spinach, kale and lettuce…
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Cornucopia Institute Supports Ecological Principles Underlying Sustainable and Organic Agriculture
If you are interested in abating the cruelty perpetrated on animals by industrial agriculture, I highly recommend you familiarize yourself with the Cornucopia Institute, which audits and rates dairy and egg producers on a wide range of ethical standards. They go far beyond “free range” or “organic” labeling and identify producers that really do avoid some…
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Dominican Republic Records 30 Percent Increase in Organic Food Production
From the Fresh Plaza website: The Dominican Republic recorded in the past six years a steady 30 percent increase in the production of organic food, with which it has established itself as one of the world leaders in the marketing of these items. The Ministry of Agriculture expressed in a statement today that the country…
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Organic Farming Cont’d.
Here’s one more story and then I’ll let it go for today. This piece from PR Web relates a discussion held by impact investor and advocate of sustainable agriculture, Philippe van den Bossche, on the benefits of Mzee Benson Kinyua’s organic farming practices. According to a July 25, 2013 article published on People’s Daily Online, entitled, “Feeding Kenya…
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Farmers Must Become Disciples and Advocates of Organic Farming
It is heartening to find articles like this from all over the world. Here’s an excerpt from a piece by Ver F. Pacete in the Sun Star in which Mr. Rmon Uy, who operates Fresh Start Organic Farm at Hda. Maquina in Silay, confesses, “I am not a farmer by profession.” Nevertheless his farmer instinct tells him,…
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Edible Landscape Saves $700 in Grocery Bills
Rosalind Creasy along with her writing partner, Cathy Wilkinson Barash decided to experiment with creating an edible landscape to see what kind of cost savings could be realized at the grocers. Their results are chronicled in an article in Mother Earth News. The Objective I took a 5-by-20-foot section of garden bed by my tiny lawn…
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Organic Agriculture – Best Way to Reduce Dead Zones
Karen Adler at the Organic Farming Research Foundation reports on how organic agricultural practices can reduce dead zones that are increasing around the world: Did you hear that the area in the Gulf of Mexico known as the dead zone is soon expected to reach the size of New Jersey? Due to heavy spring flooding in the Midwest,…
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Organic wine making – there’s always more to learn in the game
An ABC local affiliate in Canowindra talks to vintner Sam Statham from Rosna Organic wines about his 2012 NSW Organic Pioneers Award: Ask any wine maker and they’ll tell you there’s always more to learn in the game. Given half a chance, who wouldn’t take up an opportunity to visit some of the world’s oldest grape…
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Silicon Valley code-hackers team up to promote sustainable meat production
Patrick May, of the Mercury News, writes about an interesting event that took place last weekend: “Hack//Meat Silicon Valley,” advertised as a way for “leading technologists, entrepreneurs and sustainable food insiders to ‘re-imagine the future of meat,’”went like this: Sponsors issue a set of challenges to come up with ways to advance sustainable ranching and…
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