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March 2009

This Urban NYC Farmers Market Sells Produce And Collects Food Waste From Customers for Compost

March 31, 2009 Compost

This farmers market in Brooklyn, N.Y. sells produce to its customers year round at the historic Fort Greene Park. The market also performs a valuable service to its customers by being a collection site for their compostable food waste and scraps.

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Crop to Cuisine Podcast: Urban Guide to Sustainable Living Through Food

March 31, 2009 Farming & Agriculture

Authors Eugene Cordero, PhD (Cool Cuisine, Professor of Climate Change) and R.J. Ruppenthal (Fresh Food From Small Spaces, Professor of Law) talk about climate change and food.

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GMO Golden Rice Clinical Trials on Children is Condemned by Group of Scientists

March 31, 2009 Farming & Agriculture

It is bad enough the GMO companies are foisting this GMO crap (not my first choice of word) on the whole world without labeling so we have no choice as to whether or not we consume it…now they are testing it out on children before they release it to the rest of us. Real ethical [...]

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Dutch Greenhouse Business is Biological (Organic) and Still All in the Family Since 1967

March 31, 2009 Farming & Agriculture

In the old print on paper The Growing Edge, we reported on international growing operations on a regular basis. This was one story we didn’t get to tell before we stopped printing the magazine.
In Europe, organic produce is marketed as biological produce. This Dutch greenhouse farm was started in 1967 by Aad Jonker and is [...]

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Gates Foundation and National Science Foundation to Distribute $48 Million in Ag Research Includes GMOs

March 31, 2009 Farming & Agriculture

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the National Science Foundation will distribute $48 million into agricultural research in developing countries. The two foundations will seek scientists for research on projects that will mitigate problems such as drought, pests, disease, soil nutrients and other problems facing small farmers in the those countries.

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2009 Crop of Gardening Books Are Blooming Booming

March 30, 2009 Organics

The print publishing industry was suffering from declining revenues way before the current economic downturn. Yet, gardening publishers say they see an increase in sales revenue despite the current recession depression. Gardening titles like The Backyard Homestead are seeing much higher sales numbers than general titles. Publishers are adding sustainability titles especially, trying to tap [...]

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10×12 Greenhouse With A DIY Hydroponic System

March 30, 2009 Garden Blog

Even though it is spring (or close to it in some parts), it is not too early to start thinking about a greenhouse for next fall/winter. This gardening blogger bought a pre-fab 10′x12′ greenhouse, put it together last August, put a koi pond and some veggies and other plants in it over the winter and [...]

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Nutritional Superiority of Plant-Based Organic Foods

March 30, 2009 Farming & Agriculture

Organic crop production methods are not only good for the soil’s health but also for the health of those consuming organic food.

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Miami Mayor Welcomes GroGood Garden to Liberty City Housing Project

March 30, 2009 Kids and Gardening

The Garden Writers Association (GWA) and Plant A Row for the Hungry (PAR) will participate in a dedication and planting of more than 40 garden plots at Miami’s Liberty Square Housing Project. The garden planting is at noon on April 1st with Miami Mayor Manuel A. Diaz in attendance and is part of a day-long [...]

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Beneficial Bacteria Tapped to Battle Crop-Damaging Roundworms

March 30, 2009 Farming & Agriculture

Beneficial bacteria, aided by a “cocktail” of potent natural compounds, may offer a way to biologically control soybean cyst nematodes and other crop-damaging roundworms. That’s the implication of ongoing studies by scientists with the Agricultural Research Service and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Mo.
Photo credit: Agricultural Research Service

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