USDA Steals CNG (Certified Naturally Grown) Label
From Walter at Sugar Mountain Farm. If you read only one link here, read this one! And then go comment. This one had the old Janet Jackson song “What have you done for me lately?” running through my head. Love the USDA. Not.
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3-generations farmer wins sustainability award
“An Illinois farmer who values harmony with nature and community has won a national award, The Patrick Madden Award for Sustainable Agriculture in the north central region. Henry Brockman operates an intensive, multi-generational, highly-diverse and sustainable vegetable production in the Mackinaw River Valley of Woodford County, IL.”
Click through to read the interview with Henry Brockman.
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Wind farm can be the start of effort to be sustainable
A letter to the editor in the Baraboo (WI) News Republic about building sustainable community.
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Is organic better? It depends.
A review of the latest scientific studies into the nutritional value of organic versus conventional produce. Nothing really new here, but I included it because I love the last paragraph.
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