Tag: Organic Farms

  • Rosalina Tan – An Inspiration to All

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    Oliver Samson presents the story of Rosalina S. Tan, a 70 year-old advocate for organic farming.  An inspiring person and an inspiring story: ROSALINA S. TAN, owner of Nature Wonders Enterprises, a company engaged in making organic cosmetic products, is still active at 70. She is an epitome of a healthy and active septuagenarian. Her…

  • Eco-farm Tourism Helps Local Economy

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    From an article by Claire Luke in the Nicaragua Dispatch: As Nicaragua continues to make a name for itself as an international travel destination, the country’s old and new economies are joining forces in the mountains of Matagalpa for a unique brand of coffee-farm ecotourism. Many fincas that were once dedicated exclusively to coffee production…

  • New Model of Organic Farming Sprouting in Chinese Suburbs

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    By Wan Su: Caixin Online Farmers are contracting with customers to provide a year’s worth of produce, an approach one academic says could be viable. (Beijing) – A new model of locally organized organic farming has taken root in Beijing and Shanghai in recent years, and an academic says it could be a viable way…

  • Benefits of an organic food diet from an organic farming advocate’s perspective

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    Posted by: Khareem Cabey in Business Organic farming advocate, Philippe van den Bossche,responds to an article discussing the benefits of eating organic. According to a Wall Street Journal article, sales of organic food have been rising steadily over the past 10 years, “reaching almost $30 billion in 2011, or 4.2% of all U.S. food and beverage sales, as reported by the…

  • Hope for the world – one town at a time.

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    Pangasinan town issues ordinance for organic farming INGAYEN, Pangasinan—The agriculture town of Pozorrubio has taken steps toward promoting and developing organic farming, starting with the passage of an ordinance that mandates the local government to provide funds for the venture. The Pozorrubio town council has submitted the ordinance, titled “An ordinance institutionalizing, promoting and developing organic farming in Pozorrubio,”…

  • 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…

  • Become a WWOOFer and Travel The World For Next to Nothing

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    WWOOF — an acronym for Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms — offers you a way to travel the world for next to nothing. (Normally, you pay only to get there.) At the organization’s website, you can search the database of organic farms around the world to see who’s looking for someone to help out. WWOOF hosts are those…