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New Study: Organic Farming Lessens Reliance on Pesticides and Promotes Public HealthI spoke with Dr. Charles Benbrook about his recent peer-reviewed study published In Agronomy entitled Organic Farming Lessens Reliance on Pesticides and Promotes Public Heath by Lowering Dietary Risks which provides comparisons of pesticide use of organic farms compared to nearby conventional far...
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Matt Powers: Regenerative SoilToday I spoke with Matt Powers. Matt is an author, educator, seed saver, gardener, and entrepreneur focused on radically transforming the entire K-12 education system through the collegiate system as well as the economy such that it aligns with regenerative science, natural principles, and perma...
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EPA Releases Evaluation of Glyphosate Herbicide Impact on Endangered SpeciesThe day before Thanksgiving the EPA released their Biological Evaluation (BE) assessment of potential risks for registered uses of glyphosate to endangered or threatened species or their critical habitat. This federal action is a part of the Registration Review for the license of glyphosate, whic...
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Regulating GMOs Fails AgainOn Saturday, May 16, we received word from the USDA about a ruling on the regulating of GMOs. Unfortunately, regulating of GMOs fails again. This ruling is beyond insane and allows GMO makers to profit even more by the poisoning of our food, water and planet. One of the points in this ruling actu...
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Moms attend Monsanto Shareholders MeetingThere were lies and more lies from one of the biggest bully corporations of today, Monsanto. Today was Monsanto’s Annual Shareholders’Meeting in St. Louis. Zen Honeycut and Anne Temple from Moms Across America had an opportunity, through proxies, to attend that meeting and to speak up...
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Jim Gerritsen: The Price of Democracy From Seed Patents to the TPPJim Gerritsen, Owner of Wood Prairie Farm and President of the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association (“OSGATA”), understands much about the law and how democracy is supposed to work. He shares with us today the process that he, as lead plaintiff, and others experienced during a t...
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We Won! Monsanto Ad has been Pulled from O MagazineWe have a Victory! Thank you to the many of you who signed the Petition to Oprah Winfrey and O Magazine to remove the Monsanto advertisement! The ad has been removed from the February and March, 2015 issues of O Magazine. In case you did not have time to read the text of the Petition, see below: ...
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What You Eat is What They Will Grow: Real Dirt with Harry StoddartListen to this interview with Harry Stoddart, author, consultant, adviser, and philosopher. Stoddart has developed a farming system that he believes is a starting point for true sustainable agriculture. Stoddart’s book, Real Dirt, An Ex-Industrial Farmers Guide to Sustainable Eating tackles...
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Paul Frey on Organic and Biodynamic Wines, GMO Yeast, Pesticides and Nuclear PowerPaul Frey, winemaker at Frey Vineyards, the first organic winery and maker of the first certified biodynamic wine, shares his 30 plus years of knowledge and experience in the wine business. Frey Vineyards, located in Mendocino County, California, is a family owned and operated winery and employs ...
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Birke Baehr: Educator, Speaker, and Author of Birke On the FarmMany of us have seen this amazing young man’s TEDx talk about What’s Wrong with our Food System which went viral on the internet and Facebook. At only 11 years of age, Birke Baehr gave his draw-dropping speech and since that time, has never looked back. Birke, now 14 years old, shared...
