by katie | Nov 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
September 14, 2012 How to Avoid Dangerous Genetically Modified Food Americans have been consuming Genetically Modified (GM) foods since 1996. More than 70% of foods on supermarket shelves contain GM ingredients. But as the American Academy of Environmental Medicine...
by katie | Sep 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
Kristen Farrar would like to sell the cakes, scones, and muffins she bakes, using figs, walnuts, and citrus from farms near her home in Fresno, Calif. But the home-schooling mom of two can’t afford to rent commercial kitchen space or pay the $50,000 she estimates it...
by katie | Sep 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
The Observatory — September 11, 2012 11:30 AM What does ‘healthier’ mean? Coverage of organic-food study plays loose with the term By Curtis Brainard TAGS: agriculture, antibiotics, bacteria, chemicals, farming, health, organic food, pesticides One...
by katie | Sep 4, 2012 | Uncategorized
The problem that we are seemingly unable to countenance is the end of growth. Today’s system is predicated on the progressive conversion of nature into products, people into consumers, cultures into markets and time into money. We could perhaps extend that growth for...
by katie | Aug 31, 2012 | Uncategorized
I Believe in the Future of Farming[1] John Ikerd[2] I believe that to live and work on a good farm is pleasant as well as challenging; for I know the joys and discomforts of farm life and hold an inborn fondness for those associations, which even in the hours of...
