Where Imagination Meets Farming

Local-food pioneer Pete Johnson’s movable greenhouses have yielded a lettuce harvest in the dead of a Vermont winter. The Christian Science Monitor By Nancy Humphrey Case | Contributor When Pete Johnson, a leader among New England’s organic farmers, set out one day last fall to pull an 18,000-pound greenhouse, in fits and starts, over a […]

Organic Growers Call For More Fertilizer Oversight

By JACOB ADELMAN Associated Press San Jose Mercury News LOS ANGELES – Organic grower Phil McGrath plays by the rules to keep his Ventura County strawberry and vegetable farm certified organic. So suspicions that at least two fertilizer companies – one of which was recently raided by federal agents – have been peddling synthetic fertilizer […]

Spinach and Peanuts, With a Dash of Radiation

New York Times By ANDREW MARTIN Before the recent revelation that peanut butter could kill people, even before the spinach scare of three summers ago, the nation’s food industry made a proposal. It asked the government for permission to destroy germs in many processed foods by zapping them with radiation. That was about nine years […]