Today I got an email from a Canadian farmer that attended a talk I gave last February at a grower meeting in Ontario. He was reminding me to [ … ]
Tag: organic
Five Key Limitations of Organic Farming
(updated 8/22/11) Yesterday I posted about what I believe to be the five best things about Organic farming. These are attributes that I seriously believe are good ideas [ … ]
Small Farms: A Drop In The Organic Bucket
For people in the “Food Movement,” the ideal sort of farm would be a small, organic farm that is “local” by at least some definition of that term. This is [ … ]
Why I Wish More People Could Meet Farmers
The other day I made a comment on a blog post that had quoted an article I wrote about the surprisingly tiny scale of organic farming. In describing “conventional agriculture,” [ … ]
Know Your Vegetable Seeds: The Lowdown on Heirloom, Hybrid, and Organic Seeds
Now’s the time of year when prudent green thumbs curl up with their favorite seed catalogs and plan their springtime gardens, selecting from a huge variety of vegetable seeds for [ … ]
US Organic Farming: Digging into the Numbers
In 2008, the National Agricultural Statistics Service of the USDA (USDA-NASS) conducted a first-time, in-depth survey of the US organic farming sector. A summary was published in 2010 from which [ … ]
Beyond Veggie Burgers: Organic Vegan Barbecue Ideas
Being careful of our eating habits is perhaps one of the biggest commitments we can make towards caring for our environment, and choosing ethically produced food gives us, as consumers, [ … ]
Seven Sites for Buying Organic Clothes
It’s really easy to get caught up in going green and saving the environment in respect to the big steps like purchasing energy efficient appliances* or hybrid cars. Often though we tend [ … ]
sustainablog Approved: Funkoos Organic Baby Apparel
If you’re looking for organic clothing for your own wardrobe, you’ve got plenty of choices… from high-end design houses to Wal-Mart, you can find apparel made from organic cotton and [ … ]
Our Garden: Friends and Allies
Most agriculture and gardening efforts these days follow along the lines of a military operation. Waging war on pests and varmints can be a full time job if you let [ … ]
sustainablog Approved: HumanWear Organic Tees
Editor’s note: sustainablog Approved is an occasional series of posts profiling vendors in our Green Choices product comparison engine, and the stories behind their products and green business practices. We’ve [ … ]
Five for Friday: Green Blog Posts for the Week (5/28/10)
While the Gulf oil spill continues to dominate the headlines, and the green blog space (as it should… this is a calamitous, and potentially game-changing event), even a cursory scan [ … ]
Can Organic Yerba Mate Save the Amazon Rainforest?
If you’re an American reader, you may well be asking “yerba what-tay?” That’s understandable: Elephant Journal described this caffeinated drink as “the soccer (football) of the natural products world—popular and [ … ]