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Main Street on the cusp of a new life
Crafts, fruits, local specialties, organic food and vegetables Columbia Open Studios. Art studios inside the historic Arcade Mall, 1332 Main St., are open as part of this weekend's citywide artists studio tour, which continues today from noon to 6 pm ...

Adult diagnosis of ADHD among women may answer lingering questions
Another got caught up in what she called the “ADHD industrial complex” and spent thousands of dollars on brain scans, quantitative brain mapping, 40 neurofeedback sessions at $100 a pop, talk therapy, life coaching, yoga and organic blue algae to try ...
Jaeb stumbled into syrup success when bottom fell out of economy
The extract is double filtered, sweetened with organic cane juice crystals and “aged to perfection.” Photo By Paul LocherThis month Michael Jaeb will release his first recipe book containing nearly 30 recipes for using his shagbark hickory syrup, ...
Is your bedroom making you sick?
Avoid pillows made of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) as they can cause nausea, throat irritation and headaches. Leave the tech out of your bedroom. While most are addicted to televisions, music docks and laptops in their bedrooms, keeping so many ...
Things they do for love: travel, farm, open a cafe
Inside, a warren of American Chinchillas, an especially soft breed of rabbit with gorgeous gray and white fur, hop about, snacking on organic greens. "They like to have sex," says Sam, 34, a mechanical engineer. "Actually, the guys like it - the ladies ...
Five fitness favorites
Eat raw foods: Eating fresh, organic raw foods like vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds allows your body to thrive. By not heating the foods above 118 degrees, the living enzymes found naturally in these plant foods aren't damaged and are available to ...
Garden State farmers pioneer new spaces, new technologies
Gibbons, who farms using organic methods, says an urban farmer can make a good living — grossing about $5000 to $6000 a month in a small-scale greenhouse such as her 1800-square-foot model in Orange, and netting about $3000 to $4000. ...

Monday, May 16, 2011

Weekly Organic News

A new life on the farm
DesMoinesRegister.com
... a chemical-free organic farm that serves as a job-training site for disabled adults. / MARY CHIND / REGISTER PHOTOS Flores enjoys time spent with animals through his job at Raccoon Forks. A special benefit of living at the farm is 24 hour access to ...

Greeks mobilise to protect endangered seeds
AFP
But even the staunchest supporters of organic living can see the difficulty in resisting the mass appeal of cheap crops. "Those who have money eat well, but the poor will still eat modified," Papadopoulos said. "Through our behaviour, we need to force ...
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AFP
"Organicfest" takes over Mitchell Park in San Luis Obispo
KSBY San Luis Obispo News
A Cal Poly student brought his vision of organic living to Mitchell Park Saturday by organizing an all-natural and organic festival. Thirteen vendors featured a variety of healthy and organic foods, from beer to chocolate.

Life cycle of early blight
Albany Times Union
What often happens is that folks till infected plant debris into the soil at the end of the season with the good intention of creating organic matter. However, the debris never completely decomposes and can still provide an opportunity for the fungus ...

How to Succeed at Mooching without Really Trying, or, Living on a Prayer and a ...
Washington Times
Whether they sell wood, keep horses or have an on site organic farmer, these gentleman farmers mine the tax code on agricultural subsidies to receive huge tax breaks. Should our tax dollars go to a man who lives a lavish lifestyle, just because he ...


Washington Times
Once upon a life: Olivia Laing
Observer
Some friends had plans to start an organic garden on an abandoned pig farm 10 miles north of Brighton. I went out that winter to take a look, riding in the back of a black Dodge 50, the truck du jour among 1990s travelling types. ...


Observer
Living Green at Any Age
Patch.com
And, only paints with zero volatile organic compounds (VOC) are used throughout the buildings. During the year, The Evergreens donates items to Habitat for Humanity, restricts the use of toxic pesticides and has invested in a water-wise irrigatio
     


Thursday, May 5, 2011

Organic News 5-5-11


Recycle, build a 'canjo,' and take in free music
Hometownlife.com
Green Street Fair, Inc. was founded to help educate and inform people of all ages about the benefits of green, organic, and eco-friendly products and services. To promote global interest and personal well-being, the Green Street Fair blends companies, ...

SUSTAINABLE LIVING- Celebrate Mother Earth and Mom This Year
San Fernando Valley Sun
His company, Organic Bouquet, is one of the companies trying to establish a niche market for organic flowers in the US market. Another green entrepreneur, Josh Dautoff in Watsonville, Calif., converted his parents' chemically reliant fields and ...
The non-organic future
Marketplace
As most others, I found the NoN Organic Food story prejudiced, poorly researched and very disappointing. Many important points have been made by others. What I will add to the conversation is the idea of vertical farming: high rise farms for living and ...

Marketplace
Make a Green Mom Happy
Patch.com
Fresh, local and organic food is the start of a chain of events that help our planet greatly from less shipping to less packaging, waste and garbage, not to mention the support to local farmers and the health benefits of eating local, seasonal food. ...
Grow, harvest, sell & swap
Vancouver Sun
However, for Anna-Monique West, a designer and gardener living in the vibrant, small-town neighbourhood of Inglewood in Calgary, there was something she couldn't find. Like many of us, West had decided that she would begin to live closer to the earth: ...

" Top Ten Planets"
411mania.com
Its lush greenery, elaborate landscapes, and near mystical organic inhabitants are a wonder to behold and breathtaking to see come to life. Pandora is as much a character in the film as the humans and Na'vi. After their defeat at the end of Star Wars: ...


411mania.com
South Hill artist finds inspiration in transposing elements
The Spokesman Review
Upon entering Michael Sherriffs Hall's South Hill home, you are at once transported into a gallery of strange landscapes where even the figurative pieces appear organic. In the main living room, more than a dozen square canvases, some stacked by threes ...
The Resource Center's RECREATE: A Celebration of Urban Life
ChicagoPride.com
The evening will be a celebration of all things green, featuring Hors D'oeuvres courtesy of prasino, an eco-friendly restaurant with an emphasis on seasonal, locally-grown organic fare, which already has locations in St. Charles and LaGrange ...
  

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Organic News 5-4-11


Kosher Organic Sweet Treats Are Also Eco-Friendly
The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.
Both dads were committed to feeding their children only healthy, hormone-free organic foods, and each struggled to find snacks and desserts that qualified without tasting like cardboard. Originally from Mexico City, Bica was living in Los Angeles with ...


The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.
A living lesson on bamboo
San Luis Obispo Tribune
If you have heavy clay soil, add organic material when planting, or mulch heavily to attract earthworms. Because bamboo is a forest plant, it does best with a layer of mulch over its roots and rhizomes. You can simply allow fallen leaves to collect at ...

“I Heard That”: SFJAZZ Presents Living Legend BUDDY GUY; The STANDBY; Glen ...
Beyond Chron
Mingled with festival-goers, cheered by the laughter of playful children; observed the many booths selling art, jewelry; enjoyed LUMPIA (SOOO good) from HAPA SF, Modern organic Filipino cuisine, served from the Filipino mobile van, parked at Diamond ...

Beyond Chron
Rio Ferdinand – red devil turned unlikely green guru
The Guardian
"We grow organic food in the garden," he says, "we've got a little vegetable garden with a greenhouse where we grow tomatoes, lettuce, peppers and strawberries." Any tips for other green-fingered types? "Tomatoes are the easiest. Green beans as well. ...

Sunflower Farmers Market Enhances Online Strategy To Engage
Grocery Retail Online
Sunflower Farmers Market offers a variety of natural and organic foods through its store departments, including a Fruits and Vegetables Department that is home to a variety of seasonal, specialty, and local produce; a Meat and Fish Department that ...
Family Roundup: How to Get Out of the School Lunch Slump
Patch.com
She is also the co-producer and host of the popular on-line cooking show, Cookus Interruptus, which shows how to cook family-pleasing meals from organic ingredients, despite life's interruptions. She recommends bento box style containers including ...

Researchers create perfect Texas lawn
Austin News
"You really want to get a good six inches of loose soil with a bit of organic matter and a good quality compost and then put your seed on top of that." In order to properly create this lawn it means tearing out the grass that is currently covering your ...

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Organic News 5-03-11


Grower prepares a living legacy
Stuff.co.nz
SLICES OF HEAVEN: Dieter Proebst prepares samples of more than 100 varieties of apples for what was likely to be the last tasting day at his organic orchard. Treedimensions, the Motueka organic orchard business which has been dedicated to preserving ...

Stuff.co.nz
Practically Green: Bring lawn back to life using natural techniques
Memphis Commercial Appeal
This is why most people shy away from organic lawn care. There's no broadleaf weed killer. But, if I follow the program, (chop off their heads in the spring and make my soil and grass happy enough to choke the life out of future generations) weeds may ...
Organic Oscar™ Launches All-Natural Organic Dog Grooming Products Unique to ...
Business Wire (press release)
“We wanted to create a line of products that reflect a healthy and holistic lifestyle for ourselves and our dogs,” said Marie Svet, co-founder of Organic Oscar™. “Because I was committed to living a healthy life, I naturally went in search of pet ...
Neo-Network: Mimi's Organic Exchange
Chicagoist
After a chance conversation about proactive and holistic approaches to health and living, Clayton decided that people did not just need a network, but an organic one. By definition, organic is “of, relating or derived from living organisms. ...
Down-to-earth info and ideas at Green Earth Fair in Naperville
Chicago Sun-Times
“We always have presentations about nutritional issues and how to better feed ourselves as well as becoming more 'green' in our daily living,” Tiwald said. “Every year, people also enjoy our organic gardening and lawn care presentations as well as ...
Is it really a Gaudí?
Archinect
It cannot overcome the central paradox, which is that Gaudí's architecture was organic, living and responsive, whereas posthumous simulation of his ideas makes them fixed and lifeless. The fusion, the melting, the integration of structure and ornament ...

Assisted Living Websites: Optify Study Shows Higher Rankings are Key
SeniorHomes.com
But if you're not immersed in SEO or SEM on a day-to-day basis, you may not have given thought to how all these changes affect your organic CTR (Click-Through-Rate). That's okay, because the folks at Optify have—in fact, they've given a lot of thought ...
Frugal Family: Deals You Won't Want to Miss
Patch.com
Right now you can get $35 worth of beautiful flowers from FTD for just $15 at Living Social. Friends, this deal is not just for the men in the house. Don't forget your moms, mother-in-laws and grandmothers either. Organic Baby: Also at Living Social ...

Shanghai Organic
China International Business
Adding to the challenge, Zhang and his 10 employees also struggled to convince the local farmers he employs, who make a living by selling their crops, to 'rest' the land for three years. "That was our biggest challenge in the beginning, ...


China International Business
A moving crescendo
Independent Online
Yet, at the best of times it's problematic to trans-form this into a stirring, and more specifically, into an organic drama with many dimensions and layers, which is at the same time artistically a truly operatic entity. One cannot bypass the art ...


Independent Online

Monday, May 2, 2011

Organic News 5-02-11


Market@Masdar City showcases eco-living
Khaleej Times
Masdar City, designated by Etihad Airways as an 'Essential Abu Dhabi Tourist Destination', hosted 'The Market @ Masdar City' to give visitors a taste of eco-living. The programme, first-of-a-kind, family-focused street fair and organic market, ...

Bamboo spun with harsh chemicals to make textiles
Toronto Star
“Soma Organic Mattresses wants everyone to enjoy the Bamboo Experience by visiting our booth at the Green Living Show in Toronto April 15-17,” read the online invitation at somasleep.wordpress.com, before last weekend's consumer exhibit at the Direct ...
Seeking Life's Imprint in Shifting Desert Sand
Astrobiology Magazine
The controversial Viking experiment caused NASA to turn to the basics, and look for the liquid water and organic molecules that life on Earth needs for its survival. That's been the focus of missions like the Phoenix lander, the Mars Exploration Rovers ...

Astrobiology Magazine
Seeds of change: New farmers running smaller operations invigorate Maine's ...
Mainebiz Daily
In 2002, they enrolled in the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association journeyperson program, a two-year training, mentoring and business-planning course for prospective farmers. After farming stints in Cape Elizabeth and Cumberland, ...
PRESS TRIP INVITATION TO ITALY: ORGANIC FARM, INN & COOKING SCHOOL WITH WINE ...
TravPR.com (press release)
Experience Slow Food & Slow Travel, living as the locals and enjoy the culture, food & wine of undiscovered Le Marche. Including a VIP wine tour and "farm to fork" cooking classes and stay at an organic farm, inn & Cooking School in Central Italy. ...
Are we nearly there yet? Family sell everything they own to travel 8000 miles ...
Daily Mail
Author Nicole came up with the idea to document their journey for a book on the secrets of organic farming. Due to be published in 2012, The Organic Farmer's Sourcebook will be aimed at helping new farmers succeed in creating their own successful farms ...

Daily Mail
Show her the money
Sydney Morning Herald
My expenses were all the things that made daily, upper-middle-class family life possible: piano lessons, organic strawberries, martial arts classes, swimming lessons, birthday parties. My then husband was (and still is) a lawyer with a corporate legal ...

Sydney Morning Herald

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Organic News 4-30-11

   How to make the perfect recession martini
Salon
More: Felisa Rogers By Felisa Rogers 3-year-old Zoie helps out in the kitchen at McKenzie River Organic Farm. With all the folderol around eating local, very few of us know what eating local really entails, or tastes like, for that matter. ...

Salon
For a life beyond cages
The Hindu
Unfortunately, most eco-feminists in India, while taking up cudgels for organic farming and rural livelihoods, remain silent on the issue of animal exploitation. In the face of such a genocide, abolition is but a plaintive ideal. ...


The Hindu
Documentary envisions future of sustainable local food systems
West Central Tribune
WILLMAR — In one of the scenes in Chris Bedford's new documentary about sustainable food, residents of the Jackson Hill neighborhood in Muskegon, Mich., reflect on the bounty of an organic community garden they established together. ...

Street fair offers a taste of the future
The National
Organic food was on sale at Market@Masdar, a family day and farmers market promoting green living at Masdar City. Crowds of youngsters gathered at the fair for a chance to hold a rabbit in the kids' corner. A face-painting station and a crafts area, ...

The National
Organic skincare and hair products can trigger allergies
The Seattle Times
Online message boards like the Allergic Living Talking Allergies Forum (www.allergicliving.com/forum) offer commiseration and the latest news on companies that have reformulated products with no warning (the newish fragrance-free version of Burt's Bees ...
A bug's life
BBC News
The rain-fed streams are brown from organic matter, while spring-fed ones are clear. "These five types of fly larvae can only live in this type of glacier-fed streams," he explains. "'The streams have a particular combination of low levels of minerals, ...


BBC News
Mitzi Dulan: The Hidden Truth About Food Labels
Opposing Views
The term “Organic” is a generic term used by manufacturers who meet organic standards determined by the USDA. Some general meanings of organic include “of living things” and “derived naturally” although for some organic products those meanings can be ...

Opposing Views
Easter celebration, observances didn't end last Sunday
Pueblo Chieftain
The whole of the paschal celebration unfolding in our lives is an organic process that includes five moments. First, Good Friday, includes the loss of life, coping with change and naming our losses. Second, Easter Sunday, is the reception of new life, ...

Spring brings plant sales galore to Asheville area
Asheville Citizen-Times
HERB FESTIVAL: Products, experts, cookbooks, organic gardening information and Master Gardeners to answer questions. 9 am-5 pm today and 10 am-3 pm Sunday, WNC Farmers' Market, Brevard Road, Asheville. Free admission. www.ashevilleherb FRENCH BROAD ...

Friday, April 29, 2011

Organic News 4-29-11


Step into The Cayenne Room, a New Blog Exploring Paths to Healthy and ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Frontier Natural Products Co-op™, a leading US supplier of organic herbs, spices, and teas, has launched its new blog, The Cayenne Room. Topics will range from flavorful recipes, profiles from inside Frontier, portraits of partner farmers and growers, ...
Respect Living Beings
Santa Barbara Independent
Go organic if you want to control weeds and fertilize your plants. There are many all-natural products on the market that won't cause damage to animals or humans. Your child will learn at an early age that there are natural, nontoxic ways to control ...
The Living Seed Company Offers Rare Seed Varieties
Triple Pundit
Step into The Living Seed Company, a small California business that offers the highest-quality of seeds that grow to be flavorful and nutritious. Each of the seed varieties are 100% open-pollinated, organic or grown on small natural farms, non-GMO, ...

Triple Pundit
India agrees to phase out pesticide endosulfan
Economic Times
This means endosulfan will be listed in Annexe A of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants but exemptions will allowed for crop-pest combinations. It will allow India to continue to use this broad spectrum pesticide. ...
Allergies Can Be Natural, Too
Ocala
For her firstborn son, Waylon, she used biodynamic calendula-based products anointed by NaTrue, an international third-party certifier of natural and organic skincare and cosmetics. But her second, Amos, now 2 1/2, is gooped up with Hydrolatum, ...
The Joy of Soy: 2011 Living Green Expo Showcases Benefits of 'The Clean, Green ...
PR Newswire (press release)
"Soy biobased products often have lower volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and less toxicity than the products they replace, something many consumers are looking for in the products they buy." The free weekend event, which draws thousands of visitors, ...
Getting to Know Dry-Shade-Loving Plants
Patch.com
Three other ladies and I arrived at 10 am for organic coffee and cookies. The day's topic? Dry-shade planting. Dry-shade plants are a special type of plant that flourish in shady areas where this isn't a lot of moisture. Early on in our coffee break, ...
Save our soil
Hindu Business Line
Elaborating further he says, “As the plants grow together, evaporation losses are greatly reduced, thanks to dense shade which in turn leads to rapid regeneration of the organic life of the soil. The result: all-round healthy and fruitful growth.”

Hindu Business Line