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Olive Oil Farming Returns to Georgia After Over 100 Years
Green Lifestyle  (tags: organic farming, organic farm, politics, rights, government, freedoms, education, environment, ethics, news )

Organic
- 164 days ago - organicconnectmag.com
Olive farm owners are giving the state of Georgia a taste of its first homegrown olive oil in more than a century.
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Build This Easy Hoop House to Grow More Food
Green Lifestyle  (tags: Greenhouse, Organic Farming )

Ben
- 215 days ago - motherearthnews.com
Extend your season like never before for less than $1,000. Gardening inside a hoop house is like moving part of your land hundreds of miles south, all for a modest investment in materials and time. It's proof that a bit of simple technology can...
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Organic Trumps Conventional Farming in 30-Year Study
Green Lifestyle  (tags: organic farming, organic farm, politics, rights, government, freedoms, education, environment, ethics, news, Sustainabililty )

Organic
- 227 days ago - organicconnectmag.com
It's official: Organic farming outperforms conventional, chemical farming when it comes to crop yields, sustainability and profit. The evidence is found in Rodale Institute's Farming Systems Trial, the longest-running scientific comparison farming.
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ACTION ALERT: Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, USDA: Subsidize Organic Farming! PLEASE SIGN !
Green Lifestyle  (tags: organic farming, subsidies, vegetarian, plant based, Sustainabililty, eco-friendly, environment )

Simone
- 331 days ago - change.org
Subsidizing organic farming can produce abundant nutrient and healthy foods for consumers with affordable price which in return will reduce the cost of medical care. It is the first baby step to accommodate the trend of increasing population who are on
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Monsanto Back in Court: Center for Food Safety Challenges GMO Alfalfa Ruling
Green Lifestyle  (tags: food, organic farming, GMO, monsanto, agriculture )

Jeremy
- 480 days ago - redgreenandblue.org
The Center for Food Safety has announced an immediate challenge to the USDA's unregulated approval of Monsanto's genetically-modified (GMO) alfalfa. The risk of GMOs contaminating organic fields could lead to the end of organic farming as we know it.
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Buoyed By Growing Market, More Farmers Go Organic in India
Green Lifestyle  (tags: organic farming, ecosystems, sustainable, India )

Ellen
- 619 days ago - ipsnews.net
HYDERABAD, India, Sep 9, 2010 (IPS) - He had decided to grow watermelons this summer on his one-acre (.405 hectare) plot, and so Veera Narayana went about preparing the arid red earth by first ploughing it and then lighting fires in the furrows.
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Organic Can Feed the World
Green Lifestyle  (tags: conservation, eco-friendly, environment, food, greenliving, organic farming )

Kathy
- 636 days ago - pccnaturalmarkets.com
You probably buy organic food because you believe it's better for your health and the environment but you also may have heard criticism that "organic cannot feed the world."
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Young Farmer Profiles: Paula Manalo of Mendocino Organics
Green Lifestyle  (tags: farming, Mendocino County, organic farming, biodynamic )

Larry
- 1170 days ago - thegreenhorns.wordpress.com
This Stanford graduate is in her first season co-managing Mendocino Organic's biodynamic Winter CSA. She's learning how to build rich compost from livestock manure and make biodynamic preparations from fermented medicinal herbs, and is sharing her lessons
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The Fukuoka Farming Website
Green Lifestyle  (tags: ecosystems, organic farming, eco-friendly, environment, greenliving, healthy, organic, Sustainabililty, world )

Debs
- 1539 days ago - fukuokafarmingol.info
Without soil cultivation..., Fukuoka was able to produce high-quality fruit, vegetables and grains with yields equal to or greater than those of any neighboring farm.
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Green Basics: Organic Food (TreeHugger)
Green Lifestyle  (tags: health, usda, agriculture, food, organic, organic farming, regulations, green, sustainability, sustainable, farm, farming, farmers )

Sabrina
- 1714 days ago - treehugger.com
Though known colloquially as food that is grown more healthily (and is more expensive), in order for organic food to be certified as such, it must be produced under specific, legally-regulated standards and be subject to testing...
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