Organic Gardens

Farm-to-Fork Across America: Bring It Home

Julie Brothers | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Organic Farmers, Milk, Agriculture, Organic Gardens, Eco-Argiculture, Green Manures, Organic Food, Harvest, Conventional Farming, Soil Biology, Organic Farming, Organic-Farming-Organic-Food, Food News
Julie Brothers

First Stop? The Rodale experimental farm in Kutztown, PA. They are celebrating their 30-year study comparing the difference between organic and conventional crop yields and the impact on soil conditions.

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Changing the Food Landscape, One Person at a Time: Part One

Karen Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Processed Food, Meal Planning, Prison Gardens, Produce, Food Co-Ops, Timothy Tucker, Prison Food, Lunch, Organic Gardens, Frozen Food, Institutional Food, Food Safety Bill, School Lunch, Salvation Army, The Family Dinner, Laurie David, Food News
Karen Kelly

There is a lot of innovation going on in the realm of school lunches, none of it having anything to do with food safety bills or mandates from lawmakers. In fact, government is where the least amount of innovation is happening.

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A Book About Escaping to Upstate N.Y. Is Just Like Walden, Only Campier!

Annie Spiegelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Organic Farming, Goat Milk Soap, Local Farmers, The Fabulous Beekman Boys, Farmers, Organic Gardens, Josh Kilmer-Purcell, Beekman Mansion, Planet Green, Books News
Annie Spiegelman

Can a chic doctor and a successful Manhattan advertising executive leave the Big Apple and survive on a historic farm in upstate New York? I doubt it. But Josh Kilmer-Purcell give it a try anyway.

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Free the Seeds!

Maria Rodale | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Genetically-Modified-Crops, Genetically Modified Food, Organic Farming, Organic Gardening, Organic Garden, Organic Gardens, Green News
Maria Rodale

In laboratories across the globe, seeds are being captured, submitted to intense and painful torture (too graphic to describe here), and held prisoner in a scheme for world food domination.

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The Only Thing Toxic About The White House Kitchen Garden Is The Misinformation: Scientists Correct The Record On Contamination

Eddie Gehman Kohan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lead, Michelle Obama, Dr. Kimberly Gray, President Obama, Poltical Symbols, Dr. Gabriel Filippelli, Andrew Kimbrell, Children Gardening, State University of New York, Misinformation Campaigns, Mother Jones, Organic Gardens, Northwestern University, Sam Kass, Urban Gardens, Indiana University, Dr. David L. Johnson, White House Kitchen Garden, Sewage Sludge, Malia and Sasha Obama, Green News
Eddie Gehman Kohan

No one is being poisoned by eating the bounty of wonderful crops that have been grown in the White House Kitchen Garden, period.

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Tip #6 for Our 44th President: Listen to Your Mother-In-Law

Emily Main | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy Saving, Barack Obama, Organic Gardens, First Ladies, Energy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Abigail Adams, Green Living, Laura Bush, 60 Minutes, Vegetables, Lou Hoover, Food, Lady Bird Johnson, Hillary Clinton, Gardening, Parents, Green News
Emily Main

In honor of these wise women, we've compiled a list of some of the nation's former First Ladies (and grandmothers and mothers-in-law) and their contributions to a better planet.

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