Is it organic?
• naturalnews.comMaking healthy food choices is important. But, sometimes it's really tough to be sure that you are getting what you intended to get.
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Agriculture
Hemp Farming Seriously Begins
• arcleinIn April, Kentucky passed a measure to legalize industrial hemp production, over the objections of local law enforcement who said it would turn the state’s residents into a bunch of stoners. Kentucky farmers are a bit more cagey about plowing ahead
The New Farm Bill is an Economic Disaster
• Common DreamsJust when you think Congress can't get any dumber, it crafts a $1tn farm bill that harms the poor and promotes unhealthy food
Expanding Agriculture in Amazon is ‘No-win’ scenario
• arcleinuld bring decreasing yields as climate feedbacks from deforestation reduce rainfall, according to scientists from the US and Brazil. Ultimately, clearing land to grow crops or pasture could become self-defeating.
Monsanto gets Owned by 11 year old boy
• Daily Paul.comThis is old but I never saw it! This kid is awesome.
Seeds: Straw bale gardening catches on because of ease
• sacbee.comThe hardest part of straw bale gardening may be finding the straw.
Food Myth Busters: Do we really need industrial agriculture to feed the world?
• Farm WarsLearn why the "industrial agriculture is needed to feed the world" hype marketed by Monsanto is full of manure.
Top 10 reasons to join the March Against Monsanto tomorrow! (Saturday, May 25, 2013)
• naturalnews.comThe global March Against Monsanto happens tomorrow! Nearly three hundred cities will host what's sure to be hundreds of thousands of protesters and activists around the globe who are taking a stand against Monsanto and GMOs.
The Value of Hemp
• arcleinHemp is a variety of cannabis sativa that has a long history of use in the United States. However, since the 1950s it has been lumped into the same category of marijuana, and thus the extremely versatile crop was doomed in the United States. Hemp is
Monsanto Found Guilty of Chemical Poisoning in Landmark Case
• arclein“It is a historic decision in so far as it is the first time that a (pesticide) maker is found guilty of such a poisoning,” said Francois Lafforgue, Paul Francois’ lawyer, to Reuters earlier in the year. According to the U.S. Environmental Protect
BREAKING: European Commission to criminalize nearly all seeds...
• http://www.naturalnews.com, by Mike AdamsA new law proposed by the European Commission would make it illegal to "grow, reproduce or trade" any vegetable seeds that have not been "tested, approved and accepted" by a new EU bureaucracy named the "EU Plant Variety Agency."
Marijuana waste helps turn pot-eating pigs into tasty pork roast
• ReutersWith Washington state about to embark on a first-of-its-kind legal market for recreational marijuana, the budding ranks of new cannabis growers face a quandary over what to do with the excess stems, roots and leaves from their plants.
Green Acre Aquaponics Introduces a Revolutionary Approach to Farm Education
• http://www.digitaljournal.com,Farming methods have changed many times since man planted the first seed in the ground 10,000 years ago.
Know Your Garden's Insect Friends and Foes
• popularmechanics.comNot every creepy-crawly is a pest to be squashed. Here's a list to help you sort the helpful insects in your garden from the not-so-helpful.
Green Acre Aquaponics Introduces a Revolutionary Approach to Farm Education
• virtual-strategy.comFarming methods have changed many times since man planted the first seed in the ground 10,000 years ago.
Print your own gardening accessories
• salon.comSeven must-have farm and garden devices you can build with your own 3D printer
Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes
• ted.comWhat should a community do with its unused land? Plant food, of course. With energy and humor, Pam Warhurst tells at the TEDSalon the story of how she and a growing team of volunteers came together to turn plots of unused land into communal vegetable
A Web-based babysitter for your hydroponic garden
• Mother Nature Network.comBitponics Web-connected sensors help your indoor garden grow.
Loan propels fish-and-vegetable aquaponics
• westfaironline.comContinental Organics, a sustainable farm in New Windsor, should more than double its production of organic vegetables this spring due in part to a $100,000 loan from the spouse of a Facebook founder.
Victoria, Edmonton residents raise vegetables and fish using aquaponics
• http://www.theprovince.com, By Megan ColeAquaponics combines aquaculture (farming aquatic organisms like fish and plants) and hydroponics (the process of growing plants in water). By combining the two systems the fish and plants create a self-maintained system.
One-third of honeybee colonies in US died last winter: The food collapse approaches
• www.dailypaul.comAccording to the latest survey results, an astounding 31.3 percent, or roughly one-third, of all managed bee colonies in the U.S. were wiped out during the most recent 2012/2013 winter season, a rate that represents a 42 percent increase compared to
Fed Explanation for CCD
• arcleinSome of these chemicals harm the immune systems of bees or amplify viruses, said Penn State University bee expert Diana Cox-Foster. swamy, a top USDA official, said the scientific consensus is that there are multiple factors "and you can't parse an
A Win for the Bees
• arcleinThe landmark suspension is a victory for millions of environment campaignersconcerned about dramatic declines in bees who were backed by experts at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). But it is a serious defeat for the chemical companies who m
Planting the Seed of Sustainable Farming: Op-Ed
• livescience.comLake Erie is sick. A thick and growing coat of toxic algae appears each summer, so vast that in 2011 it covered a sixth of its waters, contributing to an expanding dead zone on its bottom, reducing fish populations, fouling beaches and crippling a to
Global Fig Culture
• arcleinDespite the different fig species involved, the same method for making barkcloth has evolved three times -- a remarkable demonstration of cultural convergent evolution. Figs are also a source of traditional medicine with sap being used to treat a va
Farmacology with Daphne Miller
• arcleinInspired by authors Grace Gershuny and Joe Smillie's five-chapter "The Soul of Soil," and catapulted into action on the agrarian wings of writer and farmer Wendell Berry's philosophies, Miller set out to learn from dirt what medical school had ne
Aquaponics expert brings sustainability to the desert
• http://www.dw.de, Beenish AhmedJabber Al Mazroui has succeeded in building one of the world's largest aquaponics farms in the desert climes of the United Arab Emirates. He hopes aquaponics can boom, but local farmers are proving slow to adjust.
Supreme Court Backs Patents on Seeds (‘Self-Replicating’ Technology)
• Wired.comThe Supreme Court on Monday for the first time backed patents for a self-replicating technology — Monsanto’s “Roundup Ready” soybeans — along with its licensing agreement that allows farmers to use them only once.
Garden Rebels: 10 Ways To Sow Revolution in Your Back Yard
• Lewrockwell.comSometimes I think that the next Revolutionary War will take place in a vegetable garden.
Europe bans bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides: When will America take action?
• naturalnews.comA major victory for the world's bee populations has been achieved in Europe, where a majority of European Union (EU) member states voted recently to ban the use of bee-harming neonicotinoid pesticides across the entire continent.........
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