Farming & Agriculture

More With Less — Cedar Sol Hydro Farm

August 30, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

In Northern Michigan, two former school teachers quit teaching school when their son was born six years ago and started a farm using vertically stacked hydroponic units to grow vegetables as Kristine Morris reports for Morning Star Publishing,
Sol Hydro offers sustainable farming in limited space on a clean and attractive plot of land about 10,000 [...]

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Alaskan Gardeners Recycle Plastic Pots

August 30, 2010 Environment

Once again, Alaskan gardeners have proven themselves to be above reproach, no matter what their former Governor does. Last weekend, they broke their own record at the Fourth Annual Nursery Pot Recycling event sponsored by The Alaska Botanical Garden and Alaskans for Litter Prevention and Recycling, along with Anchorage waste hauler, Smurfit Stone. Over 4,600 [...]

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Greenwashing Biotech

August 30, 2010 Environment

If you are a regular reader of The Growing Edge, you know how I feel about genetically modified crops and that I don’t buy the public relations spin of “feeding the world.” Now the GM companies are introducing a new pr spin, “fueling the world” as Lucy Sharratt reports in CommonGround.ca,
Ten years ago, Monsanto tried [...]

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GMO Apples In The Future As DNA Code Is Cracked By Geneticists

August 30, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

In the future, an apple a day may send you to a doctor since the frankenfreaks of genetic modification  have cracked the DNA code of the apple, opening up the the development of GMO apples. The BBC reports,
A team of 86 global scientists have sequenced the genetic code of the Golden Delicious apple for the [...]

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Wishful Thinking: Frankenwheat To Feed The World

August 28, 2010 Environment

I have ranted before of my opinion on world hunger. I will say it again: It is not a problem of production or yield. It is a problem of industrialized, corporate for profit food companies controlling from seed to harvest the food that the world needs to feed the hungry. We throw away enough food [...]

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Brooklyn Grange Urban Farm

August 26, 2010 Environment
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From Farm To Food Desert

August 26, 2010 Farm/Garden Politics

Topher Grey reports for ChicagoReader.com,
The sun beat down on the vegetable stand on 115th Street, across from St. John Missionary Baptist Church in far south Roseland. Fresh cantaloupes, yams, and tomatoes baked in the 90-degree heat. Three volunteers, organized by church leader Donnell Williams, waited patiently for customers behind the table, sipping ice water. Sweat [...]

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Bad Eggs Could Be Just The Beginning

August 26, 2010 Farm/Garden Politics
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New Jersey Farm Where The Water Buffalo Roam

August 26, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

The NJHerald.com reports,
Brian and Courtney Foley are a new breed of dairy farmer, staking their future on a new breed of bovine — at least to New Jersey.
The Foleys are raising water buffalo, whose high-butterfat milk is ideal for making a gourmet mozzarella cheese known in Italy as “mozzarella di bufala.” Although common in other [...]

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Using The Ordinary To Cultivate The Mysterious Power Of Beneficial Indigenous Microorganisms

August 26, 2010 Compost

Lisa M. Hamilton reports on RodaleInstitute.org,
Like a cut-rate magician, Philippine farmer and scientist Gil Carandang teaches farmers how to use cheap vodka, generic brown sugar, milk, rice and local soil to harness local microorganisms as invisible workhorses on their farms.
Who wouldn’t be suspicious? Right from the get-go this workshop is promising cure-all concoctions that bring [...]

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