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Fewer Farms To Feed Bay Area Locavore’s Appetite

March 11, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

Justin Scheck reports in The Wall Street Journal,
Pocket-size farms have sprung up in cities around the Bay Area in recent years, part of a movement to bring consumers closer to the sources of food they buy.
But even as these small farms show up in urban neighborhoods, bringing with them a sense of a local agricultural [...]

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Monsanto’s U.S. Supreme Court Appeal: Could The Fix Already Be In?

March 10, 2010 Environment

We saw what good corporate citizens the US Supreme Court were a few weeks ago when they ruled 5-4 in favor of corporations, giving them the rights of free speech and personhood by allowing them to throw unlimited amounts of money into political campaigns and buy their own personal Congressional Representative or Senator.
Now the Supremes [...]

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Triscuit Crackers Promotes Home Farming Movement

March 10, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

Pay attention the next time you have the late night munchies, reaching for the box of Triscuit crackers and start chowing down without looking closely. Four million packages of Original and Reduced-Fat Triscuit crackers will include cards with basil or dill herb seeds that can be planted directly into the ground.
The new campaign by Triscuit [...]

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In A Few Short Years, Organic Has Become The Norm

March 10, 2010 Compost

It was just a few short years ago that organic gardeners and growers were looked upon as freaks of nature in the gardening world. Miracle-Gro, Roundup and Peters were the norm on the shelves of garden sheds in most places. Now, those products are kept out of sight and usually shunned at the garden center. [...]

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The Ten Most Inspiring People In Sustainable Food

March 9, 2010 Farm/Garden Politics

Fast Company magazine lists and describes their The Ten Most Inspiring People in Sustainable Food, many of which I have mentioned in posts the past year.  I am sure everyone has their own local list of inspiring people but these are the national ones that Fast Company recognizes.

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Which 10 Cities Have the Most Urban Gardens?

March 7, 2010 Organics

From The Daily Green,
When it comes to growing your own food, living in the suburbs is essential, right? Not so in these cities, which make urban gardening simple. These 10 U.S. cities have the most community gardens per capita, according to the Trust for Public Land.
Even in cities where it seems like the biggest patch [...]

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Urban Gardening In Baton Rouge

March 7, 2010 Organics

Sam Irwin writes in Country Roads magazine,
George Atherton of Baton Rouge knows he should have been a truck farmer. If you met him you would see a face tanned by the sun and inscribed with the lines that are the roadmap of the life he has lived. He is sixty-seven years old. The years must [...]

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Small Oregon Town’s Food-Sharing Garden

March 7, 2010 Kids and Gardening

Llyn Peabody AND Chris Burns write on Ten Rivers Food Web,
Alpine, Oregon (where we live) has been host to a unique community garden for a year (and is heading into its second). What makes this ’sharing’ garden unique is that, instead of many separate plots, that are rented by individuals, this garden is one large [...]

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Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein Recalled By FDA Due To Salmonella Risk

March 5, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

Salmonella Lawyer writes on the Salmonella Blog,
A wide range of processed foods – including soups, snack foods, dips and dressings – are being recalled after salmonella was discovered in a flavor-enhancing ingredient.
Food and Drug Administration officials said Thursday that the ingredient, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, is used in thousands of food products, though it was unclear [...]

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What San Francisco City Hall Calls Compost, Activists Call Toxic Sludge

March 5, 2010 Compost

Carolyn Tyler of television station KGO reports on San Francisco’s free give away to Bay Area gardeners of treated composted sewer sludge,
A free program in San Francisco is under attack by a group of activists who claim the compost the city gives away to local gardeners is toxic.
It was quite a spectacle at San Francisco [...]

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