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 […]
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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 […]
Bringing Back Heirloom Grains
In late fall 2012, a small container of the earliest wheat seed variety known to the Pacific Northwest was delivered to Chuck Eggert, founder of Pacific Foods of Oregon and […]
Native Plants Found in the US
As the local food movement gains traction across the nation, people are becoming more in tune with the soil and hands that produce their food. Equally important, however, is considering […]
9 Ways You May Not Realize Cotton Is In Your Food
Key Issues Cotton is considered the world’s dirtiest crop due to its heavy use of pesticides. Aldicarb, cotton’s second best-selling insecticide and most acutely poisonous to humans and wildlife, was […]
