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• Agribusiness Chief Slams Organics

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 741
  When Michael Mack, the chief executive of Syngenta, a Swiss agribusiness giant that makes pesticides and seeds, hears people say that organic food is better for the planet, he has one response: "Au contraire."
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• The Kel Word: Chew on This

  
  Velvetpark | Dyke Culture in Bloom — Authority: 143
  After spending two months on an organic farm and lots more time than that mulling the matter, I have come to regard food security and sustainable agriculture as two incredibly under-valued initiati
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• Wisconsin Farmers Wish They Had More Organic Turkeys

  
  OrganicAuthority.com - Organic Blog — Authority: 475
  Since people are pinching pennies like never before, you’d assume they’d bail on the organic turkey. Organic turkeys don’t come cheap! In Wisconsin, a 16 pound organic, free-range bird can cost you around 70 bucks. Sounds like a lot, considering the kiddie table never finishes their food, Uncle Bob only eats ...
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• No More Roofs for Ontario Organic Turkeys

  
  OrganicAuthority.com - Organic Blog — Authority: 475
  In Ontario, there was a simple rule. If you are raising a flock of turkeys, numbering 50 or more, they must be kept under a roof. Why? It protects them from contact with wild birds, and maybe catching avian flu. But local organic turkey farmers fought the mandate, saying the birds must to be outdoors in order to ...
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• Volunteer for Fundapele Conservation Center in Nicaragua

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 153
  This is a civilian non profit organization, which is actively involved with social developing projects, regarding all the different fronts that a community might need for an integral growth. Our mission is to promote, drive, and conduct, to channel through, and to execute, projects aiming to personal and communal ...
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• Making Berry Delicious Pies

  
  Cooking Up A Story: A Show about People, Food, and Sustainable Living — Authority: 485
  Cooking Up a Story: Stories Those frozen pies that seem to fill the supermarket frozen display bins, where do they come from, and how are these frozen fruit pies made. We discovered one company, the Willamette Valley Fruit Company , in our own backyard that processes fresh picked berries, and within hours, the fresh ...
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• Organic Farming - Small and Local

  
  EbioAnt — Authority: 144
  By F. Tadesse I am convinced that truly organic farming can be done better by smaller farms.The bigger the farm is the more likely that the farm has to resort to methods that are not organic and environmentally sustainable. The sheer size of the farm demands it. Many people must feel the same way because CSAs, ...
  5 days ago

• 10 Tips for a Sustainable Thanksgiving

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 626
  wild turkey by stevevoght, Flickr Creative Commons Since I wrote last year about tips for a sustainable thanksgiving meal, much has transpired in the food movement. We now have a First Family that regularly toils in their backyard to grow and harvest organic produce. The hit documentary, Food, Inc. was released ...
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• Fight Hunger With SocialVibe’s Thanksgiving Feast

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 626
  Thanksgiving is quickly approaching and while many of us envision a table overflowing with a delicious feast, unfortunately the dinner table won’t look the same for the one billion people around the world who suffer from hunger.  So, this holiday season SocialVibe is inviting you to help fight hunger and ...
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• Slow Food NYC Online Auction Underway

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 626
  Slow Food NYC started a 10 day online auction yesterday with proceeds set to benefit Slow Food NYC’s Harvest Time in Schools Program. The auction is going to run from November 18 through November 28 and features some pretty awesome items if you’re into food. Check out some of my favorite selections below.  ...
  6 days ago

• Are Herbs Weeds or Treasures?

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  Many herbs have been introduced into Australia and because they are not native plants, they have often few competitors for resources such as water, soil nutrients and light and have few predators. Subsequently, these plants can grow and spread unchecked, endangering native vegetation and even various animal species ...
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  Doug Fine: Author, Journalist, Adventurer, Goat-Herder — Authority: 100
  
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• New iPhone App Makes Eating Safely a Little Easier

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 626
  Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Kristin Schafer, Associate Director for Advocacy at the Pesticide Action Network. I like my cranberries and pumpkin pie chemical-free. It’s not that you can taste or smell pesticides on food–the levels are much too low for that. It’s just that I sleep better ...
  1 week ago

• Coffee: A Love Affair

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 479
  By Karl Baumgarten, KF9, Costa Rica 4,000,0000 cups per year. 10,958,904 cups per day. 42 beans per cup.  460,273,968 beans per day. And they all have to be picked one by one by one. My fingers hurt just thinking about it. Every cup we make  is the culmination of a tenuous process that we all should appreciate. ...
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• Wet Weather Means Less Pumpkin to Go Around – Good for Organics

  
  OrganicAuthority.com - Organic Blog — Authority: 475
  If you’re dying to crack open a can of pumpkin and whip up some pie, you might have your plans dashed. Libby’s canned pumpkin, the brand everyone knows, everyone buys, says all the rain in the Midwest this year has made a mess out of the pumpkin fields. Fields are too soggy to get harvesting equipment going, ...
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• Grown In Detroit

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 626
  Teen mothers turn urban farmers at Catherine Ferguson Academy in Detroit.
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• Worlwide Corporate Control of Agriculture: The New Farm Owners

  
  MATADOR NINETY-FOUR — Authority: 423
  Corporate Investors Lead the Rush for Control over Overseas FarmlandWith all the talk about “food security,” and distorted media statements like “South Korea leases half of Madagascar’s land,”1 it may not be evident to a lot of people that the lead actors in today’s global land grab for overseas food ...
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• suggest organic farming

  
  AgricultureInformation.com — Authority: 168
  Dear Sir (Mohite Agrotech), I have 3 and a half acre land in gaigaon area(Akola) in Maharashtra, soil is deep black /black we did boring but only 1 1/5 inches of water available there. I dont know technically how much, people told me not to install pump there since water is very litte for farming neither we have ...
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• First state level fair for tribal people in Manipur

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Imphal, Nov 17(ANI): In order to promote the products of the hill regions of Manipur, the State recently held its first State level Mega Tribal Fair, 2009. With the theme “Promoting Economic Empowerment through micro credit and Agriculture sustainable through Organic Farming”, the four-day fair was held at ...
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• Help Save The Bed-Stuy Farm In Brooklyn (Video)

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 626
  The Bed-Stuy Farm in Brooklyn, NY provides 7,000 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables every month to around 4,000 residents of the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood where healthy produce is otherwise difficult to find.  Unfortunately, this vitally important urban farm is in danger of being torn up and paved over in ...
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