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Breathe Easy with Homemade Cleaners
These homemade recipes use safe, non-toxic ingredients -- like baking soda and lemon juice -- and can save you BIG money!
Groundwater Contamination from Nitrates
For years, farmers have been encouraged to dump nitrogen fertilizers on their fields — without regard to waste and overuse.
Gleanings, Seedings, Weedings
Here's a few gardening-related items that we've pulled from the web this fall.
Heartened In the Heartland
We just returned from a tour of the heartland that gave perspective to the state of midwest farming.
Pesticides in Bird Food?
Scotts Miracle-Gro fined $12.5 million for knowingly lacing bird seed with pesticides.
The Stanford Study: Storm Over Organics
The controversy generated by the Stanford organic food study continues to grow.
Organic Food: New Study, Bad Reporting
To make the conclusion that the Stanford researchers did, let alone what headline writers did with it, is dishonest.
Free at the Farmers' Market: Advice
It's reassuring that farmer's markets are alive and well in this age of industrial agriculture and processed food.
Plants On Walls
Described as self sufficient vertical gardens, living walls are gaining in popularity and their benefits are many.
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