Tag: Organic Agriculture - Page 6
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Organic Can Feed Us All - New Data Confirms It's Just As Productive, More Drought Resistant, Better For Soil
If you've got any doubts that organic agriculture can be just as productive as farming with synthetic chemicals, hopefully this will stop those doubts: Rodale Institute has been running side-by-side comparisons of conventional
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AmByth Estate Accidentally Becomes Paso Robles' First Biodynamic Winery
Tucked away high in the hills of Templeton, California is AmByth Estate, the first and only
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Natural Products Expo 2011 Report: Functional Food and Sustainable Packages
Ancient grains, coconut water, fair trade chocolates, protein bars, and organic pet food were in abundance in Orange County this weekend, where baobab and sea buckthorn joined acai, goji
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Remembering a Turkish Environmental Pioneer
When Victor Ananias started talking about organic agriculture in the early 1990s, the idea was largely a foreign one in Turkey. Today, the organization he founded in 1992 operates popular organic farmers' markets at five Istanbul locations.
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Oregon Cabin Built With Nearly Zero Electricity and 100% Salvaged Materials
Just outside of Portland, Oregon, on a small local certified organic workers´ farm collective (that´s a mouthful), a small cabin is being built. Measuring just 16´x 20´ (small is the new big), it will house farmers
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FARM:shop is a Farm Growing in a Store
You could call FARM:shop a legal grow-op: they are growing vegetables inside an abandoned house instead of dope. And some tilapia fish, not to mention basil and chickens on the roof.
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Lundberg Family Farms Doubles On-Site Solar Production
Lundberg Family Farms has installed 1,690 solar panels on top of its new 35,000-plus square-foot warehouse on its northern California farm. The installation is expected to produce 500,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity, which is more
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25% of British Children Don't Play Outside
What happens when you survey 1,000 British parents and 500 children on their leisure activities? You might find out that a quarter of the kids don't play outside. Or that 12% of adults admit to having 'no interest'
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Frog's Leap Winery: Saves 10 Million Gallons of Water a Year with Dry-Farming
The eco-renovated Red Barn from the 1880's. Photos by Jaymi Heimbuch digg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/02/frogs-leap-waterless-organic-farming.php'; Frog's Leap Winery is an organic and biodynamic vineyard located in the heart of Napa's
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Dairy Industry Fights FDA's Proposed New Drug Testing for Milk
The dairy industry is butting heads with the FDA over the agency's plan to increase testing for antibiotics in milk. Food safety advocates are concerned about overuse of drugs in dairy cows (and increased antibiotic resistance in
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Benziger: '60s Pot Farm Becomes Sonoma's First Certified Biodynamic Winery
Photos by Jaymi Heimbuch digg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/01/benziger-60s-pot-farm-becomes-napas-first-certified-biodynamic-winery.php'; Mike Benziger and his wife Mary first discovered what was originally the Glen Ellen estate at Sonoma
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Produce Pulleyed From Rooftop To Your Table At New York's Bell Book and Candle
What is special about Bell, Book and Candle, Chef John Mooney's new restaurant in the West Village, is not immediately apparent. This is because the peaceful 94 seat dining room doesn't
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Fair Trade Goes 'Local' With Hemp, Beef, and Lentils
The idea of Fair Trade coffee, tea, and bananas is a fairly easy sell to the eco-initiated. Who, after all, doesn't want Costa Rican coffee growers, for example, to stay in business and make a decent
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Fight Winter Skin and Hair With 10 Simple Homemade Spa Treatments (Slideshow)
Winter doesn't have to be dry and scaly.
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Fight Winter Skin and Hair With 10 Simple Homemade Spa Treatments
Winter doesn't have to be dry and scaly. With these 10 simple homemade spa treatments, you can give up the chemicals, toxins, and mystery ingredients found in your favorite commercial lotions and fight cold winds, blizzards, and freezing temperatures --
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Kaz Vineyard & Winery: Serious Organic Wine for the Not-So-Serious
Hidden away in the Valley of the Moon is an organic winemaker who is very serious about winemaking. His name is Richard Kasmier but he goes by Kaz. And like some modern-day alchemist, he whips offbeat grape
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Eco-Liquors to Toast the New Year (or Anything Else)
Why is liquor on my mind? Could it be that the in-laws came to stay over Christmas? Nah, probably just a coincidence. Now that Dec. 25 has passed, it's time to plan for New Year's Eve, where people stay up too late and
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More Than Lip Service - Elemental Herbs Garner Green Award
Using herbs for preventative or curative health is as old as humankind. But these days before we put some lotion or other on our skin it seems we need a PHD in chemistry to understand the product's ingredients. Elemental Herbs
