Tag: Vegetable

  • Eco-Wrapping Paper Grows Vegetables

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    Andri Antoniades introduces Eden’s Paper – a gift wrap that grows organic vegetables. There are plenty of sustainable options for wrapping your presents this holiday season, but none are quite as delicious as the type that grows organic vegetables.  Designed by U.K.-based creative agency BEAF, the colorful wrap is made from 100 percent recycled paper and decorated…

  • Marketing Co-op Seen as Last Defense Against Free Trade

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    Why do governments sign these trade agreements that negatively impact their local producers?  This article by Jimmy Laking, in the Phillipine Baguia Midland Courier, underscores the need to strengthen farmers marketing cooperatives to cope with the onslaught of vegetable products from China, that will flood the market, when the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement comes into…

  • Community Supported Agriculture

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    If you haven’t done so already, you might want to consider joining a CSA if you want to have fresh produce from a local farm this spring and summer. Here are the basics: a farmer offers a certain number of “shares” to the public. Typically the share consists of a box of vegetables, but other…