Organic Farming

Is Organic in an End-Game?

Samuel Fromartz | Posted 08.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Organic Farming, Usda Organic, Usda, Organic Food, Patrick Leahy, Organic Products, Organic, Green News
Samuel Fromartz

Writing in 2005, I concluded Organic, Inc. by saying I didn't think organic food would be more than a niche in the overall food market and that the factions within it might well blow it apart. Sadly, in the midst of a deep recession, both assertions seem to be playing out.

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Lawns Versus Gardens In Beverly Hills

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living

Read More: La, Organic Farming, Farming, Sustainable Food, White House Garden, Michelle Obama, Sustainable Agriculture, Lawn, Beverly Hills, Gardening, White House Vegetable Garden, Victory Garden, Living News
Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

I have something in common with Michelle Obama, a brand new vegetable garden in my back yard. Mine was started by my 21 year old son, home from colle...

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Organic Farming AND Spectacular View On Governors Island

New York Times | Jennifer 8. Lee | Posted 07.23.2009 | New York

Read More: Farming, Organic Farming, Governors Island, New York Organic Farm, Organic Farms, New York City, New York, New York News

The sustainable garden with the most exclusive real estate in Washington is no doubt the one at the White House. The sustainable farm with the most ex...

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How You Earn Your Living Can Become The Way You Give Back

Julia Moulden | Posted 07.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Organic Farming, Kye Marshall, Design, New Radicals, Innovation, Teach for America, North South Project, Greenpeace, Rocco Rossi, Kiva.org, Ecosphere Technologies, Doctors Without Borders, Patty Johnson, Solar Energy, Matt and Jessica Flannery, Jamie Kennedy, Stanley Bostitch, Julia Moulden, Ed Sutt, Careers, Wendy Kopp, All for Good, The Giving Life, Giving, Living News
Julia Moulden

New Radicals are appearing in each field, every sector, and around the world.

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Rooftop Vegetable Gardens Are Sprouting Up Across America

nytimes.com | Marian Burros | Posted 07.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Healthy Food, Organic Farming, Farming, New York, Local Food, Organic Food, Organic Garden, Urban Gardening, Food, Gardening, Vegetable Garden, Living News

THIS summer, Tony Tomelden hopes to be making bloody marys at the Pug in Washington, D.C., with tomatoes and chilies grown above the bar, thanks to th...

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Eat Your Garden Weeds

The Atlantic Food Channel | By Carol Ann Sayle | Posted 07.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Healthy Eating, Food, Organic Farming, Eating, Garden Weeds, Gardening, Diet, Health, Living News

When we acquired this five-acre farm in 1992, with its disintegrating historic farm house, the fields had returned to their roots, so to speak, and we...

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Alternative Careers: How Viable Is Your Plan B?

nytimes.com | Alex Williams | Posted 07.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Alternative Careers, Organic Farming, Pets, Unemployment, Chocolate, Careers, Jobs, Food, Plan B, Generation Y, Animals, Organic, Pet Massage, Chocolate Making, Living News

IN more than a few circles -- publishing, finance, automotive design -- small talk at cocktail parties has shifted from real estate (too depressing) t...

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Is Your Food Genetically Modified (GM)? How To Tell

Dr. M.J. Wegmann | Posted 06.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Organic Farming, Chemical-Fertilizers, Organic Food, World Racing Roundup, Health, Genetically Modified Corn, Genetically Modified Food, Genetically Modified Crops, Living News
Dr. M.J. Wegmann

The issue with GM food lies with a problem called Gene Transfer. This happens when genetic material from the crop can be found in the human.

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Still Searching For A Fruitful Summer Internship? Consider Farming

nytimes.com | Kim Severson | Posted 06.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Internships, Organic Farming, Farming, Careers, Jobs, Organic Internships, Health, Agriculture, Living News

They come armed with little more than soft hands and dog-eared copies of Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma," which takes a dim view of industri...

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Organic Vs. Conventional Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg

Chelsea Green | Makenna Goodman | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Organic Farming, Organic vs. Conventional, Eating Matters, Food, Organic, Green News

Organic food, conventional food, local foods...oh my! You wouldn't think these terms would charge up so many avid readers and bloggers, but they did, ...

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Beyond Organic: Animals Raised Organic Can Be Mistreated and Caged, in the Guise of Good

Makenna Goodman | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Hormone Free, Organic Farming, Chickens, Humane, Cruelty Free, Free-Range, Joel Salatin, All Natural, Organic, Food, Green News
Makenna Goodman

Organic may, in fact, be little more than a sweet notion and marketing campaign that rests easy the hearts of the eco-conscious consumer. Organic, in other words, is not always the right choice.

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USDA Offers $50M In Help Converting Farms To Organic

Reuters | Posted 06.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Usda, Organic Farming, Eating Matters, Organic Food, Green News

Farmers will have three weeks to apply for $50 million in land stewardship funding to help pay the cost of converting to organic production, said the ...

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From Gardening to Farming: A Glimpse at Long Island's Garden of Eve Organic Farm

Cathy Erway | Posted 05.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Community Supported Agriculture, Organic Farming, Garden of Eve, Long Island Farms, Chemical-Free Farming, Pesticide-Free Farming, Csa, Agriculture, Green News
Cathy Erway

After a trip out to Garden of Eve organic farm in Riverhead, I was introduced to a world of old-school farming values being led for the most part by young and fresh-thinking pioneers.

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The Doctor With A Dirty Prescription To Purge Our Bodies, And Our Planet

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Usda, Organic Farming, White House Kitchen Garden, Tom Vilsack, Rodale Institute, J. I. Rodale, Sustainable Agriculture, Dr. Tim LaSalle, Organic, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Until we start celebrating earth with a small "e" everyday, all the compact fluorescent light bulbs and reusable shopping bags and hybrid cars and stainless steel water bottles in the world won't cut it.

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Operation Salad: Take 1

Johanna Smith | Posted 05.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Organic Vegetable Garden, Organic Farming, Food Matters, Gardening, Organic Food, Eating Matters, Vegetables, Green News
Johanna Smith

So now my seeds are all set up on windowsills around my apartment. Nothing much seems to have happened yet. I spritz them daily and hope that something green transpires shortly.

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Masonades: Organic Refreshments to Go, Farm Style

Jenna Woginrich | Posted 05.01.2009 | Green

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Jenna Woginrich

I'm a big fan of fresh, natural, lemonade and brewed ice tea. I found a way to make my own single-serving sized version in portable containers.

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Agribiz Biostitute Declares Fresh Healthy Food A Menace

Kerry Trueman | Posted 04.01.2009 | Green

Read More: National School Lunch Program, Sustainable Agriculture, School Food, Organic Farming, Alice Waters, Henry I. MIller, Industrial Agriculture, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Welcome to another steaming poo-poo platter of Agribriz propaganda served up by a biostitute whose foundation is fossil-fueled by Archer Daniels Midland, Exxon, Ford, GM and Chrysler.

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Nutrional Value and Taste of American Fruits and Vegetables Has Plunged, Study Says

Mairi Beautyman | Posted 03.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Living, Organic Farming, Organic Food, Organic Products, Organic, Going Green, Green News
Mairi Beautyman

If you aren't going organic for the nutritional value, the destructive farming practices, or to pass up the harmful pesticides, you might as well just go for taste.

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Orange is Greener When It's Organic

Wendy Gordon | Posted 03.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Organic Farming, Energy Efficiency, Organic Fertilizer, Organic Food, CO2 Footprint, Organic, Carbon Emissions, Co2, Carbon, Oranges, Tropicana, Orange Juice, Food Matters, Rodale Institute, Eating Matters, Climate Change, Nitrogen, Vitamin C, Citrus, Pepsico, Green News
Wendy Gordon

PepsiCo learned that it wasn't running the Tropicana factory or transporting juice containers, but the nitrogen fertilizers they used that were the primary carbon emissions culprit.

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Al Meyerhoff and the Chemistry of Life and Death

Diane Dulken | Posted 03.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Organic Farming, Pesticides, Lawyers, Toxic, Organic Farmers, Nrdc, Organic, Memories, Death, Toxic Chemicals, Natural Resources Defense Council, Leukemia, Food Quality Protection Act, Tribute, Al Meyerhoff Leukemia, Al Meyerhoff, Organic Food, Memory, Cancer, Memorial, Oregon, Portland Oregon, Green News
Diane Dulken

This environmental lawyer reminded us that the vast majority of commercial and industrial chemicals in circulation today are not tested for longterm health effects before being put on the market.

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Katrina Rebuilding Includes Solar Panels, Organic Farming And Hybrid Buses

AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 04.17.2009 | Green

Read More: New Orleans, Organic Farming, Hurricanes, Katrina Rebuilding, Hybrid Cars, Katrina Victims, Cars, Hurricane Katrina, Green Living, Hybrid Buses, Extreme Weather, Green Technology, Solar Power, Green Transit, Green News

NEW ORLEANS — The city known more for French Quarter trash than recycling or renewable energy is going green. In rebuilding since Hurricane Katr...

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Community Supported Agriculture: Green Food At Your Doorstep

Huffington Post | Johanna Smith | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Organic Farming, Farming, Vegetarian, Food Matters, Local Food, Politics of Food, Eating Matters, Local Food Movement, Csa, Vegan, Sustainability, Community Supported Agriculture, Green Living, Locavore, Green News

Short of tilling your own backyard, joining a Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) scheme is perhaps the most effective way you can green your eating...

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How Do You Compost? (QUIZ)

Center for American Progress | Posted 01.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Organic Farming, Farming, Compost, Climate Change, Environment, Gardening, Global Warming, Green News

Keeping food and yard waste out of the trash through composting at home is easier than you might think. Take our quiz to help you sort through your tr...

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As Long as We Are Ringing in the New, Go Whole Hog -- And Even Cow

Jessica Catto | Posted 01.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Food, Organic Farming, Greening Our Farms and Livestock, Organic Food, Health, Green News
Jessica Catto

Will we protect our farmland? Another system is failing us and it is the most basic: food, glorious food.

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How Green Can A Christmas Tree Be?

New York Times | Anne Raver | Posted 01.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York, Pesticides, Certified Naturally Grown, Usda, Organic Farming, Christmas, Christmas Trees, Local Farmers, Green News

Locally grown, pesticide-free food is gaining sway these days because it is fresh, healthy and supports area farmers. But how many of us give the same...

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