Showing posts with label farms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label farms. Show all posts
Thursday, June 17, 2010

Book Review: Farmer Jane

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Women increasingly own their own farms and businesses, are active in their communities and government—and as shown in the book Farmer Jane —...
Thursday, September 17, 2009

Support Organics in California

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California Assembly Bill 1401, the Transition To Organics Act, will create a fund to provide financial assistance to California farmers who ...
Thursday, March 19, 2009

Cuba--a model for organic, sustainable farming

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Since 1990, Cuba has carried out the world's most comprehensive and successful organic food and farming revolution, including the ongoin...
Thursday, October 16, 2008

Study shows that organic farming can combat global warming

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Data from the Rodale Institute’s long-running comparison of organic and conventional cropping systems confirms that organic methods are far ...
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Monday, October 13, 2008

Food Politics in the New York Times

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Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense Of Food , has a great article in the New York Times ( http://www.nytime...
Thursday, October 09, 2008

Farmers and Restaurants Collaborate

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This is so cool--a union of 42,000 North Dakota farmers have pooled their resources and invested more than $6 million to build green restaur...
Thursday, July 24, 2008

Help protect farmers from Monsanto harassment

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AB 541 is close to becoming California's first state law protecting farmers from the hazards of genetically engineered crops. Having alr...
Thursday, June 26, 2008

Tainted tomatoes

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The recent outbreak of salmonella-infected tomatoes has put more than 25 people in the hospital and sickened hundreds, but really it is just...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

An entire village growing its own food!

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This is so cool - the people in Martin (a village in England) have come up with a project for "weaning" villagers off of supermark...
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Friday, March 28, 2008

slave labor in U.S. fields

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I just read the book Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy by John Bowe. I had no idea slave la...
Saturday, March 15, 2008

Demand for raw milk on the rise

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There's an interesting article in the Boston Globe ( http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/02/23/more_dairies_go_raw/ ) about m...
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Thursday, October 18, 2007

New pesticide known to cause tumors

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Farmers are supposed to be phasing out methyl bromide, a fumigant used on strawberries and other crops, because of it's ozone depleting ...
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