An organic grower uses nest boxes and forage plants to attract wild bees to pollinate his crop. Portland Press Herald (ME) By Lynn Ascrizzi – freelance In the organic, wild blueberry fields at Twitchell Hill Farm in Montville, a rosy green blush of new growth has been emerging from underground stems since early spring. Now,… Read more »
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Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls Wells
New York Times By CHARLES DUHIGG MORRISON, Wis. — All it took was an early thaw for the drinking water here to become unsafe. There are 41,000 dairy cows in Brown County, which includes Morrison, and they produce more than 260 million gallons of manure each year, much of which is spread on nearby grain… Read more »
After the Harvest, Claiming the Bounty
New York Times By Mary Jo Patterson AT 7:11 a.m. on a recent Sunday morning, a box truck making its sixth delivery of the day turned onto a quiet residential street in South Orange, N.J. The truck, which bore no name but was well known to the neighbors because it appeared every Sunday from June… Read more »
Hole in the Middle
To make local food more accessible, time to revive mid-sized farms Grist By Tom Philpott Most people probably don’t think of Carrboro, North Carolina — a bustling town just outside of Chapel Hill — as a food lover’s paradise. But walk into the town’s beloved farmers market on a spring Saturday morning, and you see… Read more »
Do-Gooders Who Could Do Better
Barrons Online By Bill Alpert ETHICAL CONSUMERISM IS IN. Sales have reached tens of billions of dollars for coffee, milk, lumber and other products grown organically. Or in an environmentally sustainable way. Or by farmers who got a fair piece of the action. The movement has spurred sales for Whole Foods Markets, Green Mountain Coffee… Read more »
The Food Movement is Small? Not from Where We Sit, It Isn’t.
The Washington Post by Chellie Pingree and Anna Lappé Source: USDA In her latest column for The Washington Post, “The surprising truth about the ‘food movement,’ ” Tamar Haspel argues that the number of people who really care about where their food comes from, how it is grown and its impact on our health and the… Read more »
Yogurt Wars: Chobani Seeks Court Approval to Continue Gutsy National Ad Campaign
The Epoch Times by Andrea Hayley The Greek yogurt maker with the colorful labels, Chobani, is asking a court to declare that its latest advertising campaign does not violate any laws. Chobani filed its motion Friday, Jan. 8, after the New York-based company received a cease-and-desist letter from its largest competitor Dannon, in reaction to Chobani’s national multichannel ad campaign that… Read more »
Happy(?) anniversary, Monsanto!
Pesticide Action Network, North America by Linda Wells Credit: Maggilautaro Time sure flies, doesn’t it? This spring marks the not-so-happy 20th anniversary of the introduction of Monsanto’s flagship “RoundUp Ready” GE crops. USDA approved the first of these pesticide-intensive systems for commodity crops back in 1994. The new products came with big promises: they would… Read more »
USDA Power Grab
[A version of this story originally appeared in The Cultivator, The Cornucopia Institute’s quarterly print publication available to members and online.] National Organic Program Guts Synthetic Materials Decision-Making Process By Will Fantle The USDA’s National Organic Program (NOP) stands accused of a power grab due to changing a fundamental decision-making process impacting organic food and agriculture. Miles… Read more »
Fed Shutdown Forces Cease-Fire in Organic War: USDA Louisville Meeting Canceled
Organic Advocates Railing Against Industry/Obama Administration Power Grab As collateral damage spreads, with Congress continuing at loggerheads over a Continuing Resolution to fund the federal government, the newest victims include farmers and consumers who depend on the USDA to oversee the propriety and integrity of the organic industry. In a unique regulatory structure, Congress created… Read more »
