Farming & Agriculture

Judge Allows GMO Beet Planting To Continue

March 17, 2010 Environment

his is a good example of how money trumps doing the right thing and protecting the safety and purity of organic seeds. Paul Elias writes for the Associated Press,
A federal judge on Tuesday said farmers can harvest their genetically engineered sugar beets this year, ruling the economic impact too great and that environmental groups waited [...]

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The Bust Up Big Ag Movement

March 17, 2010 Farm/Garden Politics

The farmers in the midwest of the United States are the backbone of traditional agriculture. Now they are starting to come together in their opposition to corporate agriculture. At this recent Iowa town meeting some farmers vent their frustration against the multi-national corporations that control agriculture. For more information go to the Bust Up Big [...]

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Greenhouse Tomatoes A Success Story

March 17, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

Chris Bickers of Southeast Farm Press reports,
When a row crop farmer gets into an enterprise that involves selling food products directly to the consumer, he has to ask how compatible these efforts are really going to be.
That is certainly the question Ryan Patterson and his father Phil of Broadway, N.C., had to answer a few [...]

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GMO Pharming, Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind?

March 16, 2010 Environment

The various and numerous safety concerns of genetically modified food crops altered with foreign DNA is widespread worldwide. Those concerns are miniscule compared to the apprehension over genetically modified crops grown for drugs and vaccines or “pharming.”
Like their GMO food cousins, these GMO drug crops should not be grown until as much unbiased scientific research [...]

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Urban Farming & Gardening Around The World

March 16, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

A slide show of various urban farms and gardens from around the world…

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Sunset Valley Organics—Conventional To Organic

March 16, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

As I have stated in previous posts, Corvallis (where I live) and the Willamette Valley of Oregon is a bread basket of farms producing large amounts of a wide variety of food. Just south of the Corvallis city limits is Sunset Valley Organics on the main highway going south to Eugene, Highway 99.
Organic production hasn’t [...]

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Scientists Develop More Muscular GMO Trout With Six-Pack Abs

March 15, 2010 Aquaponics

Thanks, but no thanks; I will stick with the puny, regular fish with no six-pack abs… From a University of Rhode Island press release announcing their GMO fish with six-pack abs,
A 10-year effort by a University of Rhode Island scientist to develop transgenic rainbow trout with enhanced muscle growth has yielded fish with what have [...]

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Seattle Urban Farm Company—Transforming The Seattle Urban Landscape With Edibles

March 14, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

Seattle Urban Farm Company hopes to create many new sites growing food in the urban metro area of Seattle. The collective farming and gardening experience of SUFC can establish a productive organic vegetable plot in a client’s urban yard. SUFC gives a thorough garden consultation, answering a clients’ questions and giving the client new ideas [...]

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American As Apple Pie? Not Necessarily

March 12, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

Another result of our homogenized industrial food system is the declining number of varieties of apples commercially grown as Gary Nabhan writes on Grist.com,
You’ve heard the hackneyed phrase “as American as apple pie.” But America is not taking care of the apples — or the orchard-keepers — that have nourished us for centuries. In 1900, [...]

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Corvallis Local Foods

March 12, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

I am fortunate to live in the mid-Willamette Valley of Oregon. Fortunate in that, it is literally a bread basket of food. Someone did some research into what could be grown here and over 80% of the food consumed here could be grown here. Obviously tropical things like avocados, mangoes and bananas can’t, but most [...]

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