Tag: Organic Farms

  • Vermont GM food labeling bill clears key hurdle

    —

    by

    Daniela
    in

    Vermont last week took a key step towards becoming the first state to require labeling of genetically modified foods. The state’s Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved labeling legislation without a trigger requiring other states to act, a signal that lawmakers and the state’s attorney general are prepared to battle litigation if the bill is signed…

  • Organic Farming – Solution to World Hunger

    —

    by

    Daniela
    in

    The following article by Paul Hanley in Saskatoon’s The Star Phoenix succinctly lays out the benefits of organic farming and the issues with industrial farming.  To summarize it in a nutshell, “We need to start paying farmers for ecological services, not just food. The money can come from repurposing perverse subsidies on fossil fuels and farming,…

  • Live Streamed Lecture by Vandana Shiva

    —

    by

    Daniela
    in

    Posted in Arts & Culture, Culture, Events by Anastasia Chipelski on March 24, 2014 Internationally renowned eco-feminist, philosopher, and activist Vandana Shiva will be paying a visit to Winnipeg this weekend, and while her ticketed event is now sold out, local organizers have arranged an alternate, free live-streamed teach-in. Shiva will be speaking to a group of paying attendees on the evening…

  • My Potato Project; The Importance of “Organic”

    —

    by

    Daniela
    in

    A child’s experiment turns into a lesson on the toxins in our food supply.

  • Seed Saver Encouraged to “Pass Them On”

    —

    by

    Daniela
    in

    Dayna McDaniel, co-founder of Seed-Savers, KC, shares with reporter Cindy Hoedel of the Kansas City Star Magazine her reason for starting Seed-Savers, KC and the first seed she ever saved. It was a tomato presented to me by a neighbor, back in the 1970s. I had just moved into the neighborhood and I noticed this…

  • Pesticide Residue Strengthens Case for Organic Farming

    —

    by

    Daniela
    in

    My Google Alerts is ablaze with articles about pesticide residue found on organic produce.  Paul Hanley’s level-headed piece in the Star Phoenix explains why this finding “drives home the importance of expanding pesticide-free organic farming practices.” Providing food free from chemical residues is just one goal of organic farming and perhaps not the most important.…

  • Sustainable, People-Centered Agriculture Lies in Agroecology

    —

    by

    Daniela
    in

    In keeping with the general theme of a new “gift” economy, Colin Tudge and Graham Harvey’s article in the Ecologist focuses on “a sustainable, people-centered agriculture.” …we are launching our ‘Manifesto for a new agriculture’ at the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2014. A key theme is ‘agroecology’ – farming that takes its lead from nature. It conceives…

  • Registration opens Monday for MOSES organic conference

    —

    by

    Daniela
    in

    Registration for the 25th MOSES Organic Farming Conference at the La Crosse Center opens Monday. The conference, sponsored by the Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Services in Spring Valley, Wis., will take place from Feb. 27 through March 1. The event has grown from a meeting of about 90 people 25 years ago to the…

  • Organic Farmer Role Model for Educated Indian Youth – Many From Corporate World

    —

    by

    Daniela
    in

    A reader, who is also interested in the organic food movement, shared a link to the following article.  It is so encouraging to hear about educated young people taking up organic farming instead of heading off to corporate jobs. Many youngsters are pouring into Pakkam, a village in Thiruvallur district, about 35 km from Chennai…

  • Meet Deborah Szekely, a 91-Year-Old Wellness Warrior

    —

    by

    Daniela
    in

    Reposted from The Atlantic The nonagenarian just started her “project for the next decade.” EMMA GREEN Organic food may be a fad of the 21st century, but Deborah Szekely, 91, has been organic farming since 1930. In her nine decades of life, she has run for Congress, managed a federal agency, and served as a…