The Esalen Institute is known for personal growth and social change. Its Farm and Garden advances those goals through connection to food and the soil. Los Angeles Times By Caitlin Keller Special to the Los Angeles Times Reporting from Big Sur—— Morning fog weaves its way through colorful rows of vegetables, herbs and flowers as… Read more »
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Free trade: As U.S. corn flows south, Mexicans stop farming
McClatchy Washington Bureau Tim Johnson | McClatchy Newspapers SAN JERONIMO SOLOLA, Mexico — Look around the rain-fed corn farms in Oaxaca state, and in vast areas of Mexico, and one sees few young men, just elderly people and single mothers. “The men have gone to the United States,” explained Abel Santiago Duran, a 56-year-old municipal… Read more »
A Look Inside the ‘Raw’ Milk Underground
Nicole Bode visits an unpasteurized milk club. DNAinfo By Nicole Bode MANHATTAN — It didn’t look like a batch of groceries that could get someone in trouble. I inspected the cardboard box full of two half-gallons of milk, two cartons of eggs and a white plastic bag with some chicken livers inside. All of the… Read more »
5 Myths about hunger in America
Washington Post By Robert Egger No one goes hungry in America. 1. Hunger is supposed to happen in other places – in distant countries where droughts or storms or famine compel us to donate money and oblige our government to send relief workers and food aid. In reality, hunger also hits much closer to home…. Read more »
Goelz Farm: Going Organic
A Maple Lake family transitions to organic dairy farming in hope of a steady income Minneapolis Star Tribune By Emma L. Carew The sprawling 412-acre Goelz farm of Maple Lake, Minn., has been largely unchanged over the past century. Every morning, Adam Goelz’s daughters help him hook up their 48 cows to milking machines, which… Read more »
Update on Almond Pasteurization
USDA weighing compromise proposal In late November, Cornucopia staff arranged a meeting with USDA Undersecretary Bruce Knight to discuss concerns and problems with the now-implemented mandate requiring pasteurization of all raw almonds grown by domestic producers for sale in the U.S. For more than an hour, Cornucopia’s two codirectors met in Washington, DC with three… Read more »
Monsanto Cuts 16% of Work Force as Sales in Roundup Herbicide Fall 34%
Sustainable Pulse Monsanto announced Wednesday that sales in the company’s agricultural productivity segment, which includes its probable carcinogen Roundup herbicide, fell 34 % to $820 million. Monsanto’s shares fell over 2% as a result. The Biotech giant also said Wednesday that it now plans to cut a total of 3600 jobs, or about 16 %… Read more »
South Dakota’s New Raw Milk Rules Effective Dec. 11
Food Safety News The production, testing and labeling of raw milk will be under new rules in South Dakota effective Dec. 11, 2013. State Secretary of Agriculture Lucas Lentsch approved the rules, clearing the way for the changes under consideration since early this year to go into effect. The changes were already passed by the… Read more »
WI to Host Thousands of Organic Farmers
Public News Service By Tim Morrissey LA CROSSE, Wis. – It’s the largest organic farming conference in the U.S. The Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES) will again host the Organic Farming Conference in LaCrosse, from Feb. 24-26. Faye Jones, executive director of MOSES, says the annual gathering has become a huge event. “The… Read more »
(ALERT OVER) Senate Food Safety Legislation Vote Pending!!
Call your Senators TODAY — Urge their support for the Tester Amendment The Cornucopia Institute We have learned that the Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) may be voted on in the Senate on Thursday, September 16. This bill, as we have noted before, would impose extremely burdensome and unnecessary requirements on the thousands of… Read more »
