When fresh herbs meet fresh food, a field of healing and flavor opens up. Lancaster Farmacy is showing the way. The Philadelphia Inquirer By Elisa Ludwig LANCASTER – Elisabeth Weaver bent down to rub the serrated leaves of a holy basil plant as she toured the acre of blooming herbs she has nurtured from seedlings:… Read more »
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Eat Local – Even in Winter
Many farmers’ markets no longer shut down in cold weather. By Amy Farnsworth | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Pawtucket, R.I. – Inside a long corridor of a renovated mill on a cold January morning, a young brown-haired woman slices handmade ricotta and feta cheeses and lays them out on wooden cheese boards…. Read more »
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… Read more »
Charlie Munford’s Flying M Farm Pioneers Organics in Mississippi
Proving natural foods have a home in the Deep South Plenty Magazine By Eleanor Barkhorn When Charlie Munford took over his family’s Mississippi farm two years ago, he had one goal: to show that organic farming could succeed in his home state. “It was a proof of concept thing for me,” says Munford, standing in… Read more »
Ailing Economy Makes Some Organic Farmers Nervous
La Crosse Tribune By Chris Hubbuch ST. JOSEPH, Wis. – Step inside Syl Clements’ dairy barn and 9,000 baby chickens scurry. A network of automated water tubes and troughs of organic feed hang from the ceiling. A carpet of wood chips scents the air, kept at a steady 70 degrees by giant fans. There are… Read more »
This Is Your Brain on Advertising
Neuromarketers use sophisticated brain-imaging technology to test consumer response and help clients fine-tune their strategies BusinessWeek.com by Amber Haq Do you ever get the creepy feeling that advertisers know how to put a lump in your throat, inspire subconscious brand loyalty, or make your mouth water? Just wait: It could get worse. An emerging technique… Read more »
USDA Secretary to Organic Farmers: Get the Hell Out!
Cornucopia’s Take: That’s a real public servant! Bring legitimate complaints about cheating in organics to the USDA, and the Secretary of the agency suggests that you are a crybaby-socialist and should move out of the country. – Mark A. Kastel Trump’s USDA Is Killing Rules That Organic Food Makers Want Bloomberg by Andrew Martin and Shruti… Read more »
How A Seed Saver Discovered One Of Our Favorite Tomatoes
NPR by Eliza Barclay Fortunately for those of us who are suckers for novelty, every year fruits and vegetables seem to come in more bewitching colors, shapes and flavors. Lately, we’ve been tickled by the cotton candy grape and the vibrant Turkish eggplant orange . (Egg yolks can be ghostly white, too, but that’s another… Read more »
Local, Organic Farms Are the Future
Litchfield County Times By Cynthia Rabinowitz “Math Lessons For Locavores,” an Op-Ed by Stephen Budiansky in the Aug. 20 New York Times, missed the mark, I believe, on eating locally. Using facts and figures, Mr. Budiansky refuted the claim that eating locally is beneficial. But, by limiting his observations to only one issue, that of… Read more »
The Number One Question for Determining the Integrity of Your Organic Dairy
The number of times a day your favorite dairy brand milks its cows speaks volumes about the integrity of its operation. Organic dairy cows are required to have access to pasture for the entire grazing season. The 5 cow dairies on The Cornucopia Institute’s Organic Dairy Scorecard ensure their animals graze well-tended pasture, focusing on… Read more »
