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10 Mood-Boosting Foods You Can Grow
I grow 6 of these 10 Mood-Boosting Foods You Can Grow: swiss chard, blue potatoes, cherry tomatoes, oregano, black-eyed pees, sunflower, chamomile, evening primrose, lavender, and St. John's Wort.
Obama Administration says, "No raw milk for you."
Mainstream researchers will not provide objective science for issues unless they're funded. And government funding leans heavily towards business interests. So it is with raw milk. Touting the facts is political suicide.
Trouble in Paradise: Waimea, HI Residents Sue DuPont
It's not just Monsanto GMO, but also DuPont GMO. Professionally, volcanic-origin land is extremely nutrient rich; anything is going to grow in it. Having GMO test fields simplt destroys the soil and land. Waimea residents should prevail if the recent Minnesota ruling is an indicator.
Sherrif Runs the FDA Out of Town
Brad Rogers, Sheriff of Elkhart County, Indiana, is withstanding FDA bureaucrats who are harassing citizens in his county. He wrote two letters to the Justice Department warning it not to conduct inspections of Hochstetler’s farm without a warrant from a local judge. In the process, he got into a debate over the limits of federal power and the U.S. Constitution with the Justice Department’s Goldstein.
Occupy Food
It’s time to Occupy our food chains, kitchens, lunchrooms, and school cafeterias, and transform our $30 billion local and organic food and farming system from being the niche alternative to being the norm in the nation’s trillion dollar food economy.
Why I Believe 'Organic' is So Important
In response to environmental stressors like insects and other competing plants, tea plants produce flavonoids that have antioxidant effects on your body, but… Conventional growing methods that use pesticides, herbicides, and unnatural fertilizers hamper the production of flavonoids, and… Plants exposed to these synthetic chemicals have less of a need to even produce flavonoids.
Roundup Ready Alfalfa Damages US Seed Industry
Weeds in an alfalfa forage field are a symptom of problems and simply spraying with Roundup to kill the weeds will not correct the underlying problem that is causing poor performance. Forage fields of alfalfa are often planted with a companion perennial grass. Spraying an RR alfalfa field with Roundup will kill any companion grass. If the pollen from an RR alfalfa plant fertilizes the flowers on a non-RR alfalfa plant, the seed on that non RR plant will contain the RR gene, and plants that grow from that seed will be roundup resistant. This means that organic livestock will no longer be organic as GMO Alfalfa cannot be undone.
Why Choose Organic Flowers, Seeds, and Anything Not Food
Organic cleans the land, water and air. Choose organic anything.
Hormone Disruptors
Hormone-disrupting chemicals throw off our bodies' intricate systems for developing and regulating our bodily systems; these chemicals mess with our ability to function in a way our bodies did pre-Industrial Revolution.
Organically grown produce provides more nutrition than conventionally grown
Organically grown produce provides more nutrition than conventionally grown! No surprise there as plant nutrients come the soil; synthetic chemicals inhibit nutrient uptake. (I'm searching for the actual tables displayed in this blog from the Rutgers Univ. Website.)
Chemical Trespassing
A Minnesota Court ruled that organic farmers can sue chemical farms that pollute the organic farmers crops with pesticides, thereby rendering their crops unsalable in the organic market. This applies also to homeowners who use Roundup.
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Corn Ethanol Production Contributing to Dangerous Over-use of Antibiotics
(Beyond Pesticides, May 18, 2012) A groundbreaking report documents the potential for antibiotics used in the production of corn-based ethanol to contribute to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The potential for the misuse of antibiotics in industrial agriculture to spawn antibiotic-resistant bacteria has long been recognized, but the new report sheds light on a dimension [...]
World Health Organization Combats Mosquito Resistance to Insecticides with More Pesticides
(Beyond Pesticides, May 17, 2012) Rather than investing in safe, long-term solutions to prevent malaria mortality, the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a strategic plan that calls for multiple toxic pesticides to combat mosquito resistance to insecticides that is showing up in sub-Saharan African. Insecticide resistance, according to the WHO report, is already rampant [...]
Report Puts Potomac River as “Most Endangered,” Highlights Why Clean Water Protections Critical
(Beyond Pesticides, May 16, 2012) With Congress considering drastic cuts to national clean water protections, and rivers nationwide facing threats from natural gas drilling, chemical pollution, and new dams, American Rivers yesterday released its annual list of America’s Most Endangered Rivers.® It names the Potomac River, known as ‘the nation’s river’ as it flows through [...]
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5 Things I Learned at Summer Camp
by guest blogger Maya Rodale. Summer camp was one of the best, most formative experiences of my life. For one glorious month, I lived in an idyllic camp deep in the woods of Maine with tons of kids my age, cute and funny counselors, fresh air, fun and games, and really good food. Looking back, here are the awesome life skills camp instilled in me.
The Future of Agriculture: Triple-Bottom-Line Beauty
by guest blogger Alberto Gonzalez. Finally, a business model that is not only centered on profits, but also on social and environmental impacts. It's a triple-bottom-line business model: profit-driven, people-focused, and environmentally responsible. And it's amazingly successful.
How to Pick Up The Pieces Of Your Life
Every so often, whether it’s after a long hard spate of work, finishing a big project, ending a relationship or recovering from a crisis (big or small) I find myself repeating the same rituals of recovery. Maybe they'll work for you, too?
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