New Farm

According to the Cornucopia Institute, all the fuss over proposed HR 875 may be exaggerated.

A federal judge in Delaware ruled that there was insufficient evidence to rule out the possibility of biological contamination from genetically modified crops planted in national wildlife refuges, potentially leading to increased weed resistance, damage to soils, and other unknown effects.

The Organic Institute has launched its first national consumer education and marketing campaign, "Organic. It's worth it.," designed to communicate the value of organic—from personal to environmental health.c

“As America and the world gird to become green, they're finding that ecology and economy sometimes don't stroll hand in hand into an unpolluted sunset,” writes Jonah Owen Lamb of the Merced Sun-Star.

Michelle Obama and a crowd of eager fifth graders from an area elementary school began digging up the South Lawn of the White House to plant its first vegetable garden since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden.

America’s most provocative grazier is but one of many featured free videos on organic and sustainable agriculture on ChelseaGreenTV.

Farmers in Brazil's Mato Grosso, the country's top soy state, are shunning once-heralded genetically modified soy varieties in favor of conventional seeds after the hi-tech type showed poor yields.

In this op-ed, Lisa Hamilton seconds author Paul Roberts’ opinion that the food movement got too narrow in simply championing organic and local food production, while the threat of soil erosion – induced by climate related problems – constantly shadows food producers.

The Ontario government is set to announce new regulations that would ban the use of 85 chemicals used in about 250 lawn and garden products.

Tell the Obama administration to put an end to the Bush legacy of lax regulations over GE crops.