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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 flying outside the hive and become… Continue

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

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

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

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