Laura Parker: A Taste Of Place
At one time, all farmers knew the easiest way to test and correct the pH of their farm's soil: they tasted it. While it's something of a lost art now,...
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Copenhagen Climate Talks Near Deal On Preservation Of Forests
New York Times | ELISABETH ROSENTHAL | Posted 12.15.2009 | Green
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COPENHAGEN -- Negotiators have all but completed a sweeping deal that would compensate countries for preserving forests, and in some cases, other natu...
Monsanto Squeezes Out Seed Business Competition, AP Investigation Finds
AP | CHRISTOPHER LEONARD | Posted 12.14.2009 | Business
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ST. LOUIS — Confidential contracts detailing Monsanto Co.'s business practices reveal how the world's biggest seed developer is squeezing compet...
Don't Have a Cow
Elihu Dietz | Posted 12.10.2009 | Green
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Meat is wasteful: it takes 10,000 pounds of grain to produce 1000 pounds of meat. But is abstaining from eating meat really the solution?
The Fair Food Project Tells Farmworkers' Stories (VIDEO)
Paula Crossfield | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green
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If you eat, you rely on farmers, but you also rely on the labor of 2.5 million farm workers in the United States who earn wages below the poverty limi...
Tough Growing Season For Farmers In The Northeast
nytimes.com | JAN ELLEN SPIEGEL | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green
Plagued with inclement weather, disease and complications from both, farms throughout Connecticut, New Jersey and New York generally suffered one of t...
Farmville: Why People Can't Get Enough Of Virtual Farming
Mother Nature Network | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green
Like an agrarian Sims, FarmVille allows you to tend a virtual plot of land. You harvest your crops, save coins and then use those coins to purchase fa...
Seven Great Questions to Ask Your Farmer
David Becker | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green
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Most farmers who work farmer's markets and farms stands are proud of what they produce. And many want to tell just how they do it.
Always Wanted To Work At A Farmers Market? Find Out How!
causecast.org | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green
With more than 4,800 farmers markets of various sizes already established in the U.S., there's a huge demand for dedicated individuals to make these e...
Eating Animals: Jonathan Safran Foer Talks To Ellen About His New Book (VIDEO)
Posted 11.04.2009 | Books
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Jonathan Safran Foer spoke with Ellen Degeneres today about his new book, Eating Animals, which uncovers the horrible world of factory farming. (Check...
Raising Your Own Hens
Makenna Goodman | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green
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I've been raising laying hens for about a year, and I've never been happier. I have fresh eggs whenever I want them and I've come to love chickens for all their neurotic, pecking glory.
What's Next For Jonathan Safran Foer And Eating Animals?
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books
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Beginning the week of October 26, 2009, we ran a series of reviews on HuffPost Books on Jonathan Safran Foer's new book, Eating Animals. It was a surp...
Honey Crop Failure 2009: Honey Crop Statistics
thedailygreen.com | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green
So, this year our predictions are that 2.223 million colonies (down from last year because of colony losses to colony collapse disorder and last year'...
Eating Animals: Why Eating Matters
Kathy Freston | Posted 10.30.2009 | Books
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If ever there was a book that could profoundly affect our lives at the most fundamental level, this one is it.
Eating Animals: Jonathan Safran Foer's New Book Asks Why Don't We Eat Pets?
Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books
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Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals is a triple marvel: the research is serious and far reaching, the writing clear, clever, accessible and in a few instances graphically ingenious, and the cause is genuinely important.
Cost of Beer Unlikely To Fall Despite Plummeting Hops Prices, Crop Surplus
oregonlive.com | John Foyston | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business
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The hops shortage of 2007 is over, buried in a glut of unsold hops. Don't expect craft beer prices to follow -- the $5 pint and $9 six-pack are likely...
The Moral Ferocity of Eating Animals
Dr. Andrew Weil | Posted 10.28.2009 | Books
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If you eat meat from factories you have not absorbed the reality of factory farms. If you truly understood what happens inside these windowless animal jails and abattoirs, you simply would not eat this meat.
Food Beware: How Non-Organic Food Will Kill You
Louise McCready | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green
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While Food, Inc. uncovered the horrors of the industrial food system, Food Beware links pesticides and herbicides with cancer and other health problems.
Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals Turned Me Vegan
Natalie Portman | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books
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Jonathan Safran Foer's book Eating Animals changed me from a twenty-year vegetarian to a vegan activist.
Jonathan Safran Foer's Controversial New Book, Eating Animals
Aaron Gross | Posted 10.26.2009 | Books
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Over the next weeks Huffington Post will feature a diverse range of responses to Jonathan Safran Foer's controversial new work of non-fiction, Eating Animals.
Please, Sir: $1 Billion More a Year for School Lunches
David Becker | Posted 10.24.2009 | Green
"President Obama has pledged to end childhood hunger by 2015." Talk about an ambitious goal!
Apprenticed for Life: Learning From Millie Kalish's Hard Times on an Iowa Farm During the Depression
Naomi Starkman | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
Much of Mildred Armstrong Kalish's outstanding book is devoted to entire chapters on how her family survived on a rural farm in record cold with no running water, no central heat, no electricity, and no money.
Hot Organic Farmers: Pick The Cutest Organic Farmer (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post | Eve Solomon | Posted 10.13.2009 | Green
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Here at HuffPost Green, we think organic farmers are heroes and rock stars. And nothing is sexier than someone who likes to get dirty AND supports the...
Potatoes: Harvesting The Urban Garden Bounty
Big Green Boulder. | Big Green Boulder | Posted 10.12.2009 | Home
we harvested this week, just ahead of the frost, and to my surprise: My otherwise mediocre home garden yielded nearly 40 pounds of perfect potatoes. S...
Prisons Raise And Serve Grass-Fed Beef
Hartke Is Online! | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green
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Inmates at White Post are enlisted in animal husbandry at Sky Meadow to raise cattle for beef production. The program is a collaboration of several en...
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