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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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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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Lawsuit Filed Over GMO Crops In Nature Refuge

March 5, 2010 Environment

Carey Gillam reports on Reuters,
Environmentalists filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, accusing the service of illegally allowing farmers to grow genetically modified crops in a national wildlife refuge.
The groups said up to 80 other national wildlife refuges across the United States are now growing genetically engineered crops and could be [...]

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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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“Beyond Organic” Weakening USDA “Organic” Label

March 2, 2010 Farm/Garden Politics

Keith Goetzman writes in Utne Reader,
Have you heard the phrase “beyond organic” and wondered what it means? If so, you have sympathizers among some certified organic farmers who believe it confuses consumers. Oregon-based organic farmer Katie Kulla writes for In Good Tilth about “beyond organic” and its effect on farmers like herself who have jumped [...]

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Organic Manifesto—The Book

March 2, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

From Rodale Books,
Rodale Press was founded on the belief that organic gardening is the key to better health both for us and for the planet, and never has this message been more urgent. Rodale is best known for publishing Organic Gardening magazine. Now Maria Rodale, chairman of Rodale, sheds new light on the state of [...]

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Greenhouse Project Promotes Self-Sufficiency

February 28, 2010 Greenhouses

Rich Hewett writes in the Bangor Daily News,
A grass-roots project seeks to promote self-reliance and self-sufficiency by making low-cost greenhouses available to interested individuals and institutions.
The Greenhouse Project, sponsored by the United Methodist Church of South Brooksville through The Reversing Falls Sanctuary, already has built several small greenhouses in the area — including one at [...]

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