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Announcing The Corps Network 2012 Projects of the Year

Levi Novey | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Civilian Conservation Corps, Great Basin Institute, Mile High Youth Corps, Los Angeles River, Green Jobs, San Diego, Crime, Urban Corps of San Diego County, National Service, The Corps Network, Conservation Corps, Desert Tortoise, Black Locust, Colorado, Los Angeles, Seeds, Green Careers, La Conservation Corps, Service Corps, Michigan, Greater Miami Service Corps, Endangered Species, Nevada Conservation Corps, Miami, National Parks, Projects of the Year, Green News

Each year The Corps Network honors Service and Conservation Corps whose accomplishments and projects exemplify the positive role that Corps serve for individuals and communities nationwide.

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Four Tips for Spring Cleaning Your Cuisine

Linda Novick O'Keefe | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: White House, Seeds, Spring Cleaning, Healthy Eating, Gardening, Spring Meals, Healthy Food, Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids, Spring, Healthy Habits, Get Healthy, Family Dinners, Food News

Spring is a time of renewal, of first plantings and pea shoots. What better time to clean up your family's food habits? Here are four simple changes that I'm trying to bring into my own home this spring.

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High Price of Monopoly: Why American Farmers Must Buy From Just One Seed Company

John W. Boyd Jr. | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Seeds, Iowa, Farming, Black Farmers, National Black Farmers Association, Seed Companies, Monsanto, Farmers, Monsanto Farmers, Biotechnology, Agriculture, Monopoly, Antitrust, Biotech, Monsanto Seeds, Bv-Politics, Green News

Monsanto's monopoly limits farmers' choices and threatens our livelihoods. But America's antitrust laws were enacted to protect us from this very situation. These laws are premised on the belief that competitive markets produce the best products, and they need to be enforced.

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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, What Will Hit (in 2012) and What Will Fall

Ashley Koff | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: New Year's Resolutions, Gmos, Prediction, Nutrition, 2012, Calorie Counting, Personal Health, Trends in Health, Seeds, Health Trends, Healthy Living News

As we close the door on 2011, nutrition and wellness -- the pursuit of optimal health -- continues to lead the country as an issue and major challenge. Looking ahead, there is much to be hopeful about, and a few things to watch out for.

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Rare Seeds, Artfully Packaged: Precious Heirlooms For The 99%

Kerry Trueman | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Seeds, Slidepollajax, Holiday Gifts, Urban Agriculture, Gardening, Hudson Valley Seed Library, Seed Saving, Green News

A thoughtful, lovely gift that costs less than five bucks? A limited edition that delivers beautiful blossoms and edible treats you'd be hard pressed to find in a store, at any price? That, my friend, is a rare find.

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PHOTOS: Seeds Like You've Never Seen Them

Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: Photos Seeds, Threatened Seeds, Video, Overpopulation, Seeds Climate Change, Food Climate Change, Seeds, Plants Climate Change, Seed Photos, Green News

From National Geographic's New "7 Billion" App: Heirloom vegetables have become fashionable in the United States and Europe over the past decade, p...

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Seed Bank on the West Bank

Salena Tramel | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Food Sovereignty, Salena Tramel, Union of Agricultural Work Committees, Local Food, West Bank, Biodiversity, Seeds, Grassroots International, World News, World News

The best way for Palestinians to avoid expulsion from their lands and retain their homes is to intensively work the land.

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Newly Discovered Plant Buries Its Own Seeds

Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Plant Discoveries, Video, Plants, Nature, Seeds, Spigelia Genuflexa, Botany, New Species, Genuflecting Plant, Buries Seeds, Green News

A new species of plant that spreads its own seeds has been discovered in Brazil. The plant, whose seed-dropping motion resembles genuflection, was nam...

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Memories of a Life Spent Saving Seeds

Kurt Michael Friese | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Iowa, Seed Savers, Decorah, Book Review, Organic Gardening, Books, Seeds, Food, Sustainable Agriculture, Books We Love, Food News

Very few people in Iowa have had a greater impact on the movement to protect real food than Diane Ott Whealy, the author of a new memoir detailing a life obsessed with seeds and soil, farm and family.

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Mozambique Looks To Hybrid Seeds To Help Food Crisis

AP | By DONNA BRYSON | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: High Food Prices, Gmos, Peter Waziweyi, Hybrid Seeds, Africa Food Crisis, Africa, Seeds, Food Technology, Free Market, Mozambique, Nzara Yapera, Food Crop Seeds, The Green Revolution, Food News

CATANDICA, Mozambique -- Peter Waziweyi is bouncing around the lush countryside of Mozambique in his 30-year-old truck, visiting his customers' maize ...

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Gaza Diaries: Leaving a Legacy of Seeds

Salena Tramel | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Rural Womens Development Society, Seeds, Palestine, Grassroots International, World News, Rafah, World News

In late 2009, Gaza's first seed bank was established and opened. Since then, more than 200 registered women members of the Rural Women's Development Society have established 10 seed-saving units benefiting upwards of 1000 people.

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PHOTOS: Authors And The Trees That Inspired Them

Richard Horan | Posted 07.15.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Famous American Authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Famous Authors, Seeds, American Authors, Willa Cather, Muhammad Ali, Thomas Jefferson, Authors, Books News

On a family vacation from Wisconsin to Dauphin Island, Alabama, we stopped at Lincoln's home in Springfield, IL to take a tour. In the front parlor there was a photograph of Honest Abe hanging on the wall.

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Haiti: Seeding "Reconstruction" or Seeding Destruction?

Jane Regan | Posted 07.01.2011

About a month ago, a team of journalists in Haiti released a nine-article study of a massive seed distribution that took place after the earthquake la...

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All Hail the Seed Bomb: Healing Nature Deficit Disorder One Gooey Ball at a Time

Celia Alario | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Seed-Bombing, Urban Gardening, Guerilla Gardening, Green, Seeds, Urban-Gardening, Nature-Deficit-Disorder, Seed-Bombs, Nature Deficit Disorder, Green Living, Los Angeles, Urban Gardens, La Impact, Green News

On a recent visit to Los Angeles I was overjoyed at the creativity, ingenuity, business savvy and pure chutzpah of a green service project presented on the streets -- called Seed Bombs.

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Seeds to Plant or Seeds to Patent?

Kurt Michael Friese | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Seed-Savers-Exchange, Iowa, Farming, Agriculture, Seeds, Pioneer Hybrid v. JEM Ag, Monsanto, Patent Law, Food News

In these days of global corporations writing agriculture and energy policy, it is vital that we draw a line in the soil.

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'Tis the Season for Seeds

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Seeds, Slidepollajax, Heirloom Seeds, Gardening, Hudson Valley, Holiday Gifts, Hudson Valley Seed Bank, Christmas Gifts, Green News

If you want to give a homegrown gift that truly keeps on giving -- something that's precious and rare and beautiful, though it doesn't cost much at all -- you can't beat a packet of heirloom seeds.

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Harvesting Mother Earth's Gifts Of Life

Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Birth, Grain, Goddess, Nature, Mother Earth, Seeds, Autumn, Harvest, Fall, Resurrection, Life, Healthy Living News

Throughout world mythology, the goddess of the good ground, the grain, the autumn harvest, has been appropriately portrayed as a knowledgeable mature woman of the world.

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PHOTOS: 7 Tips For Fall Gardening

Huffington Post | Alden Wicker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Daffodils, Birch, Lavender, What to Plant in the Fall, Bulbs, Crocuses, Blue Flax, Seeds, Garden, Prairie Coneflower, Autumn, Fall, Delphinium, Preparing Your Garden for Winter, Trees, Columbine, Pansies, Foxglove, Japanese Maple, Black Eyed Susan, Echinacea, Shrubs, And Fothergilla, Bee Balm, Gardening, Penstemon, Coreopsis, Sumac, Slidepollajax, Nature, Green News

You've been weeding until your back hurts all summer, but your job isn't over yet. Before the frost sets in there is plenty to do in your garden to ke...

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The Second Siege: Saving Seeds Revisited

Cary Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011

Never before in history will so much crop diversity be lost intentionally and avoidably as the day the bull-dozers roar into Pavlovsk Station.

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Fifteen minutes of undeserved fame in Port-au-Prince

Crossover Dreams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Seeds, Sustainable Agriculture, Monsanto, World Social Forum, Haitian Peasants, Haitian Farmers, Haiti, Farming, Agriculture, Sustainable Farming, Hybrid Seeds, World News

By Peter Costantini ~ Seattle A few days ago, while browsing Le Nouvelliste, the venerable French-language paper published in Port-au-Prince, I was...

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Tweet Medvedev: Stop the Destruction of the Future of Food!

Cary Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Global Seed Vault, Crop-Diversity, Fruit, Biodiversity, Food Politics, Seeds, Food, International Year of Biodiversity, Dmitry Medvedev, Pavlovsk Station, Green News

Outside of St. Petersburg, the Pavlovsk Station houses a huge collection of diverse apples, strawberries, and many more -- more than 5,000 varieties in all. Today, the Pavlovsk station is facing bulldozers.

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My Trip to Seed Savers Exchange in Iowa - Part 2

Maria Rodale | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Seeds, Green News

Heritage Farm, the Seed Savers Exchange (SSE) headquarters, is nestled into a little valley amidst rolling Iowa cornfields. This was the 35th annivers...

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Seeds of Life: Seed Industry Structure (VIDEO)

Rebecca Gerendasy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Monopoly, Seeds, Department of Justice, Bayer, Usda, Frank Morton, Monsanto, Corn, Seed Companies, Green News

Understanding the organizational structure of the seed industry may seem a pursuit into the arcane, and wonkish world of academics, and private seed breeders. This is certainly not the case.

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My Trip to Seed Savers Exchange in Iowa - Part 1

Maria Rodale | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Seeds, Iowa, Heirloom Seeds, Seed Saving, Green News

When George DeVault asked me to speak at the annual Seed Savers Conference and Campout in Decorah, Iowa, I jumped at the chance. I had been meaning to...

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An Open Letter on Haitian Agriculture to the CEO of Monsanto

Crossover Dreams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Via Campesina, Rural Environment, Farming, Peasants, Agriculture, Seeds, Small Farmers, Haiti, World News

Monsanto's own corporate history doesn't inspire a lot of trust, and Haitian farmers are not alone in their skepticism of your model and embrace of alternatives.

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