Every once in a while an issue comes along that is so shockingly wrong, that people seem to spontaneously unite in opposition. This is one of those times. I am very honored to post this letter, written by some of the most informed, passionate, and good-hearted people I know. Please, do what you can to […]
Organic Issues
From City Girl to Farm Foodie
By guest blogger Debbie Miller, president of Organic Connections, a Canada-based nonprofit group. Debbie and her husband Ian farmed organically from 1990 to 2005. Although they are no longer active farmers they continue to live on the farm near Lisieux, Saskatchewan. Maria is the keynote speaker at the Organic Connections conference and tradeshow this week. […]
Message from Montana
Every once in a while I get emails from readers that just deserve to be shared with all of you. So starting today, I’m going to be sharing your letters as “guest blogs” on Tuesdays, along with my regular guest bloggers’ posts. Here is Shannon’s story. Please share yours with me, too. And if we […]
Growing A Greener World: The Rodale Institute!
Watching yourself on TV is kind of weird. But I have to say, Joe Lamp’l (also known as “joe gardener”!) made it really easy for me. He’s one of the hosts of Growing a Greener World, a TV series on Public Television. Out of the blue, he and his cohost Patti Moreno (a.k.a. “Garden Girl”) […]
The Power to Make a Difference
By guest blogger Joe Lamp’l, executive producer and host of Growing a Greener World, a new public-television series that delivers to a modern audience the latest trends in ecofriendly living, mixed with traditional gardening know-how. It ended way too soon; some of the most important chapters of my life were over and I just wasn’t […]
A Visit to My Kitchen: Birke Baehr
Eleven-year-old Birke Baehr is in my kitchen today, talking about how he has been inspired to ditch his dreams of the NFL for aspirations of becoming an organic farmer. At the age of 9, Baehr started studying sustainable- and organic-farming practices. He visited and worked at Full Moon Farms Co-op, in Athens, GA; Sequatchie Cove Farm, […]
Make Mine Organic
Today I’d like to share an excerpt from Organic Manifesto. We can feed the world with organic foods and farming. Despite the propaganda churned out by biotech and chemical companies, organic farming is the only way to feed the world. Transferring our toxic agricultural system to other countries is sure to bring about a global […]
A Visit to My Kitchen: Max Goldberg
Today Max Goldberg is in my kitchen, talking about his views on healthy clean living and clean water. Max writes a blog about organic food and healthy living and is a member of several organic consuming, trade, and farming associations. He made the switch to living organically nearly 10 years ago and now shares his […]
Scratch
Raised on America’s first organic farm, Scratch author Maria Rodale learned how to make everyday favorites from, yes, scratch — the way you remember them; the way they turn out best.
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Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment.
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