From the monthly archives:
One Song Farm, on the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i, is a 20 year old diversified organic farm. The farm was started by a person named, Sun, with help from Lisa Fuller. When Sun started the farm in 1989 on leased land, he double dug the 100 foot long beds and immediately added compost and earthworms to it. He was told organic farming wouldn’t work on Kaua’i but Sun has proved the naysayers wrong with bountiful harvests of all kinds of edible plants…
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For over 60 years, West Oakland, California has been a combination of residential homes and apartments and an industrial area filled with abandoned buildings and old rail yards, located between the Port of Oakland and the downtown core. Over 60% of the 20,000 people who live in this neighborhood are below the poverty level. And there is not one supermarket in the eight square mile area. [click to continue…]
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The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) called on “Physicians to educate their patients, the medical community, and the public to avoid GM (genetically modified) foods when possible and provide educational materials concerning GM foods and health risks.” [click to continue…]
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This week has seen fewer postings from me due to the fact western Oregon is experiencing 80—90 degree weather and the soil is perfect for planting. So my hands are rough and dirty from working the soil and not conducive to typing on a computer keyboard, even if I had the time. Then when I come in at dark, I collapse in a heap.
We are experiencing a drastic shortage of rainfall for the year; around 10-12 inches below normal. Not only do I have to plant but I have to get the drip irrigation lines working over a month ahead of schedule. So the next few days may see the trend of less postings continue.
If you like this site, YOU can help support it and keep it going by purchasing books and back issues from the store. Just click on the store button above and see what is offered there for sale. Everything you buy helps me stay in business. Thanks and now I gotta get back out in the acreage and plant…
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If you listen to NPR stations that carry the program Marketplace, you may have heard the 12 second ad that Monsanto has been running that says:
Marketplace is supported by Monsanto, committed to sustainable agriculture, creating hybrid and biotech seeds designed to increase crop yields and conserve natural resources. Learn more at ProduceMoreConserveMore.com.
American Public Media, which produces the Marketplace program, is basically spreading Monsanto’s propganda. Click here to sign a letter telling America Public Media to stop spreading the lies. Note how “sustainable” the Monsanto ProduceMoreConserveMore.com site looks. If Monsanto wasn’t at the top, one wouldn’t even know it was Monsanto.
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The Agricultural Marketing Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the availability of approximately $49 million in grant funds, less USDA administrative costs, to enhance the competitiveness of specialty
crops. Grant applications must be received by August 26, 2009.
For more information contact: Trista Etzig, Phone: (202) 690-4942, e-mail: trista.etzig@usda.gov; your State Department of Agriculture or the web site of the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service.
A Powerpoint Presentation pdf file on the program.
Graphic credit: USDA AMS web site
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Weeds, the popular television show is starting its fifth season on Showtime. But many gardeners raise a different kind of weed to use in their salads. At supermarkets, the common dandelion is going for $9.00 per pound (much less than the other kind of weed on the television show.) Homeowners are fighting a losing battle against many common weeds in their lawns but food consumers are paying top dollar for them. Farmers are growing them to meet the demand.
Photo credit: Patrice Gilbert/The Wall Street Journal
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