Seeking Harmony: First-Generation Farmers Share Wisdom
Organic farming runs deep for Jessica Gigot and Dean Luce—not ancestrally but in their commitment to a place, to a way of life, to producing food that’s healthy for people, […]
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Does Your Farm Meet the Latest Food Safety Standards?
The nationwide recalls of fresh produce in recent years have stirred consumers’ fears and prompted tightening of regulations on farmers and food handlers. The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), […]
Leading the Herd: Protect Our Organic Dairy Cows
Iowa dairy farmer Francis Thicke believes that keeping calves with their mothers is the most humane and healthy way to start them off. He has also determined that weaning them […]
5 Facts You Never Knew About Your T-Shirt
While you may know that eating organic has benefits for human health and the environment, it often goes unsaid how much our clothing choices contribute to environmental pollution and resource […]
Is Organic Worth the Media Buzz?
The latest media buzz over organic foods is a bit of a non-event here at the Rodale Institute. The Stanford study asks the question, “Are Organic Foods Safer or Healthier […]
Improving the Ecosystem, One Tree at a Time
Tree As A Crop uses a simple concept that offers extraordinary potential to create ecological, social and economic health. Modeled on the natural cycle of planting, harvesting and replanting annual […]
The Real Beef with Biosolids
Treated human waste (otherwise known as sewage sludge or biosolids) has been floated as the “solution” to everything from the topsoil loss to dwindling supplies of mined phosphorus. But it […]
East Coast Tree Fruit: The Final Organic Frontier
From time to time, a customer will ask us “Why aren’t there more local organic fruits available at Pure Sprouts?” As frustrating as it might be for fruit lovers in […]
Students Get Their Hands Dirty on the Farm
Without soil biology and nutrient cycling, humans would have no food to eat – no grains, no dairy, no eggs, no meat. This was the network of interactions 60 Reading […]
So You Want to Run a Farm Stand
In 1999, I created the first farmers markets in London, England. The first market opened with 16 farmers selling fruit, vegetables, meat, poultry, cheese, bread, plants, and wine. Today, London […]
