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