Heavy snows this winter in the northeastern U.S. has damaged greenhouses in several states.
Four greenhouses at Soergel Orchards and Garden Center in Franklin Park, Pa., collapsed under the weight of record snow in early February. The snow is so deep that vehicles cannot even reach the destroyed greenhouses.
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Bad Winter For Northeast Greenhouses
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Canada To Ban Weed And Feed Fertilizers
What started in some municipalities and the province of Alberta as a provincial ban on weed and feed fertilizers in 2008, has spread to the whole country of Canada. Effective at the end of 2012 all weed and feed fertilizers will be banned. Some municipalities in Canada have been moving to ban the use of [...]
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Activists, Salmon Farmers Work Together On Pilot Project Using Closed-Containment System
Clare Backman AND Jennifer Lash write in Times Colonist newspaper,
One has to be forward thinking, open-minded and innovative to develop truly sustainable ways of managing natural resources and people’s interaction with nature. This is true for most everything we do in the world and it’s also true when it comes to salmon farming.
In the midst [...]
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USDA Funds For Conservation On Organic Farms Available
Organic growers, and those who are transitioning acreage to meet organic standards, are eligible for federal money aimed at promoting conservation practices.
The Natural Resources Conservation Service, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has allocated $50 million for the national 2010 Environmental Quality Incentives Program Organic Initiative, according to the Organic Farming Research Foundation, Santa [...]
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USDA Says Fewer Than 1% Of US Farms Are Organic
A recently released US Department of Agriculture Organic Production Survey of organic farms nationwide found that less than 1 per cent are organic and that they generate $3.16 billion in sales. The USDA said that it tallied 14,540 organic farms and ranches that were either certified by the USDA or exempt from those rules [...]
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Teaching Kids Where Their Food Comes From
Hannah Wallace writes in The New York Times,
About 20 high school students stood behind the butcher counter, staring at a 160-pound piece of meat from a recently slaughtered cow.
“All of our meat comes from local farms, and we get it all whole,” said Tom Mylan, 33, one of three butchers at the Meat Hook, a [...]
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Random Thoughts on a Sunday Morning
Here are a few random thoughts from my week.
I’ve been reading Anderson’s “Free” yesterday and today and am intrigued with the question of what a writer/creative offers to people when the cost of finding content is pretty close to zero. I’m working on that issue now (it’s probably in the experiential part of the [...]
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While Global GMO Acreage Surges, Herbicide-Resistent Weeds Thrive
Tom Philpott writes on grist.org,
Global acreage of genetically modified crops jumped 12 percent in 2007 — “the second highest increase in global biotech crop area in the last five years,” gushes a report from the pro-GMO International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA).
Farmers planted an additional 30 million acres of GM crops in [...]
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Growing Power Inspired—Sweet Water Organics
James Godsil and business partner Josh Fraundorf founded Sweet Water Organics one year ago in a large, vacant industrial building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Inspired by fellow Milwaukee resident and Growing Power founder Will Allen, the two men are using an method of raising perch in tanks at ground level and feeding vegetables growing in well [...]
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Morning Star Fishermen
Morning Star Fishermen is a Christian organization based near Tampa, Florida. It has a training facility there with a main hatchery and over 110,000 gallons of tank space, wet labs and classrooms. Other facilities include 60,000 gallons of enclosed exterior tanks as well as fully integrated “model” solar and wind powered aquaponics systems. Morning Star [...]
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