Turning Compost by Temperature
Farmers, municipalities, and home gardeners alike understand the concept and value of composting, but they may not understand how to make good compost. The National Organic Program (NOP) offers guidelines […]
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Why Grass-Fed Matters: Q&A with an Organic Dairy Farmer
Tell us a little bit about yourself and how long you’ve been in farming. My name is Forrest Stricker, married to Barbara. We have two sons and daughter-in-laws and four […]
Food As Medicine Film: How Changing Your Diet Could Heal Your Body
What does a greenhouse and a pharmacy have in common? According to a new PBS documentary, they both house tools to heal our bodies. Available to stream now, the PBS […]
Reduced-Tillage Increases Nutrient Concentrations in Stored Winter Squash
Rodale Institute investigates the links between soil health and human health through our studies designed to analyze nutrient density in finished crops. Overview Winter squash,“Butternut types” (Cucurbita moschata Duch.), is grown […]
Erik Oberholtzer Appointed to Board of Directors
We’re happy to welcome Erik Oberholtzer—chef, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Tender Greens—to the Rodale Institute’s board of directors. Oberholtzer is committed to using his national and international relationships to support […]
The Three Sisters… And that Fourth Sister No One Really Talks About
We know that the Native Americans were excellent hunter-gatherers, probably from our middle school textbooks. But most of us were not informed of their laissez-faire system of symbiotic agriculture. I’m […]
Industrial Hemp Yield and Chemical Composition as Influenced by Row Spacing, Fertilization, and Environmental Conditions
Dinesh Panday1, Bharat Sharma Acharya2, Madhav Dhakal3, Tara Caton4, Casey Lapham1, Andrew Smith1, Arash Ghalehgolabbehbahani1 1Rodale Institute, Kutztown, Pennsylvania, USA 2Rodale Institute, Southeast Organic Center, Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia, USA 3Mississippi […]
‘You Can Almost Feel the Future Being Invented Here’: U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Celebrates Rodale Institute
U.S. Senator Bob Casey recently visited Rodale Institute to meet with former U.S. servicemembers enrolled in the Institute’s Veteran Farmer Training program. The initiative, which is spearheaded by a former […]
Variation of Total Phenolics in Lehigh and Purple Majesty Potato Cultivars with Cropping Systems in the Vegetable Systems Trial
Gladis Zinati, Ph.D.1,* and Lavanya Reddivari, Ph.D. 2 1Director of the Vegetable Systems Trial, Rodale Institute, 611 Siegfriedale Road, Kutztown, PA 19530; 2Assistant Professor, Food Science, Purdue University, 745 Agriculture […]
10 Ways Organic Improves Soil Health
Soil will always be the sturdy base of every organic farm, but our understanding of it is continually changing. Thanks to the work of scientists around the world, new information […]
