by guest blogger Annie Spiegelman (a.k.a. the Dirt Diva) It’s estimated that 75 percent of the processed foods in U.S. supermarkets contain genetically engineered (GE) ingredients. This manipulation occurs by taking a specific gene of one species, let’s say a flounder, and inserting it into another, such as a tomato, or inserting a bacterium into […]
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Beth Terry’s Plastic-Free Gardening
Adventure, Part 5
by guest blogger Beth Terry I’ve been dedicated to living a life plastic free, and experimenting this summer with starting up a garden. This post is one of many in a series describing my successes and struggles keeping plastic out of my garden. (If you’re new to this series, check out my first three posts about […]
Beth Terry’s Plastic-Free Gardening
Adventure, Part 4
by guest blogger Beth Terry Gardening without buying new plastic…it’s hard enough when you know what you’re doing. But for an inexperienced gardener like me, who thought she could just plant some seeds, water them, and watch the veggies grow, this experience is proving to be a real challenge. This month, I’ve been dealing with bugs […]
Front Lawn Freedom
By Rodale Institute Executive Director, Mark “Coach” Smallwood I’m a sports guy—for 20 years I coached high school basketball, hence the nickname—and I enjoy turf for many reasons. It’s a place to play golf, baseball, football, or soccer, or to just run around and enjoy the great outdoors. If kids and pets play on a […]
Beth Terry’s Plastic-Free Gardening Adventure, Part 2 + Giveaway
By guest blogger Beth Terry. For Part 1. A few weeks ago, I began my plastic-free gardening project in my tiny Oakland, CA, yard with the help of Rodale.com and Eric Hurlock, of OrganicGardening.com. I built a raised bed with sustainable wood, and filled it with bulk gardening soil that I had delivered without any packaging. […]
City Gardens: The Bees’ Needs
By guest blogger Amy Freitag Amy Freitag is the executive director of New York Restoration Project (NYRP), a nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring and maintaining parks and community gardens in under-resourced New York City neighborhoods. It turns out that there is a lot to bees. After the first of my three days of beekeeping school, […]
San Francisco Flower and Garden Show: Get Your Green On!
by guest blogger Annie Spiegelman, a.k.a. the Dirt Diva Garden nerds, come home. There’s a place where we belong. It’s time to get your green on at the 26th year of the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show! This year’s theme, “Life in the California Garden,” celebrates a bigger, better, and greener approach to tinkering […]
Queen Bees, Cellphones, and Colonel Mustard in the Ballroom
By guest blogger Annie Spiegelman (a.k.a the Dirt Diva) A recent study, conducted this spring in India, found a link between the disappearance of honeybees and cellphones. If only it were that simple. Colony collapse disorder (CCD) was found in the United States and various other countries in 2006. Beekeepers started noticing queen bees—normally very […]
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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