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AM: Honeybees have this incredible capacity for navigation, memory and communication. Can you explain how honeybees locate floral sources and then communicate that to the other bees in the hive? Les: A number of bees as they get older, start flyi...
May 28
Soy oils and other soy by-products are ubiquitous in many packaged foods. Check labels and support companies that are rated high on Cornucopia's organic soy scorecard.
May 21
Sounds possible and likely. A good reason to wonder what sort of soy and render-plant food stuffs go into feeding factory meat products sold in super markets. Vegan sounds saner each day, if one can't live in a sustainable community, if one is stu...
May 21
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From The Cornucopia Institute Tremendous growth in the organic soy foods industry has occurred over the last two decades as consumers seek healthy dietary alternative sources of protein. Many companies touting their “natural” or “organic” soy bra...
May 21
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Cathrine Sneed, founder of the Garden Project in San Francisco said in a plenary at the Bioneers Conference, “Over the years, I’ve always asked people when they got arrested what they were eating. Generally, they say the same thing. The poor, when...
May 5
Here is the Charles Benbrook Link
April 17
Obviously there is no benefit of GMO foods to the consumer, but plenty of potential risks. There is not one approved GMO trait that any consumer would feel they get a benift from. Most of the technology has to do with round up resistance so when f...
April 17
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Why are such luminary Bay Area chefs as Alice Waters, David Kinch, and Traci des Jardins pitching in to help the Grow a Farmer campaign? It’s because they recognize the importance of cultivating new organic farmers and gardeners who have the train...
April 10

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The Fascinating and Perilous World of Honeybees: A Conversation with New Mexico Beekeeper Les Crowder

AM: Honeybees have this incredible capacity for navigation, memory and communication. Can you explain how honeybees locate floral sources and then communicate that to the other bees in the hive?



Les: A number of bees as they get older, start flying outside the hive and become… Continue

Posted on May 28, 2009 at 11:30am —

RD  Managain

Many Organic Soy Food Brands Importing Beans From China

From The Cornucopia Institute

Tremendous growth in the organic soy foods industry has occurred over the last two decades as consumers seek healthy dietary alternative sources of protein. Many companies touting their “natural” or “organic” soy brands have found favor in the supermarket. A new report, released this week by The Cornucopia Institute, lifts the veil on some of these companies, exposing widespread importation of soybeans from China and t… Continue

Posted on May 21, 2009 at 1:01pm — 2 Comments

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Bad Food Creates Bad Behavior

Cathrine Sneed, founder of the Garden Project in San Francisco, said in a plenary at the Bioneers Conference, “Over the years, I’ve always asked people when they got arrested what they were eating. Generally, they say the same thing. The poor, when they get money, go to McDonald’s. They take their kids there. That’s something they are very proud to do. What I’m seeing is more and more people not eating food at home. They’re not cooking at home. Whe… Continue

Posted on May 5, 2009 at 11:00am —

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Grow A Farmer

Why are such luminary Bay Area chefs as Alice Waters, David Kinch, and Traci des Jardins pitching in to help the Grow a Farmer campaign? It’s because they recognize the importance of cultivating new organic farmers and gardeners who have the training and knowledge to grow and market fresh, delicious organic food while caring for the land and communities in which they work.

For more than 40 years, that’s the type of graduate the… Continue

Posted on April 10, 2009 at 6:08pm —

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Democracy and Hunger

Frances Moore Lappe was a pioneer in making the connection among nutrition, agriculture and environment in her seminal book Diet for a Small Planet first published in 1971. In a recent article entitled The City That Ended Hunger she said “In writing Diet for a Small Planet, I learned one simple truth: Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy. But that realization was only the beginning, for then I had to ask: What does… Continue

Posted on March 16, 2009 at 5:27pm —

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At 11:58am on August 5, 2008, kelli said…
hey RD! hope all's well with you... the craziness has begun...

miss ya! lookin forward to october.
At 8:22pm on August 2, 2008, teogr said…
Hey there RD! Incognito - very nice...
At 7:11pm on August 2, 2008, Esther said…
Hi,

He loves helping me plant and water. Yes, we do need more young farmers.

I so enjoyed Arturo's eloquence. Thank you for posting his essay!

EL
 
 

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