Last week I put up a short post on the New York Times, Op-Ed piece written by a farmer who discovered that due to farm payment policies, he couldn’t switch from growing corn to growing vegetables. Now Dan Owens at the Blog for Rural America has picked up on it and done a great job [...]
That’s what I found scribbled in my notepad from the Upper Midwest Organic Farming Conference. I heard a rumor about this town in Iowa that has totally re-jiggered its economy around local and organic food. Now I find this…
“The Organic Opportunity: Small Farms & Economic Development” tells the story of Woodbury County, Iowa’s innovative [...]
This just out from Organic Business News…
The explosion of record high prices on the conventional has pushed the organic sector even higher and the fallout is already happening—organic bakers are pulling out.
“The whole thing is chaos,” said Bob Quinn, who runs the Kamut Association, which is based in Big Sandy MT. [...]
It might be right under your nose, but finding locally grown food can be a challenge.
Twin Cities-area (Minnesota) consumers who want to receive fresh, sustainably-produced vegetables on a weekly basis during the 2008 growing season can reserve a share in a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm before the first salad greens emerge [...]
Source: OMRIupdate Newsletter, Winter 2007, vol. 9 issue 1.
The new, completely-online database of organic seeds, their suppliers, and their availability is growing rapidly. As of early December, the system displayed a total 778 varieties of organic seeds from 14 suppliers. OMRI runs the database of certified organic seed varieties as a service to organic growers [...]
