by guest blogger Coach Mark Smallwood. The latest media buzz over the Stanford study is a bit of a non-event here at the Rodale Institute. The study asks the question, “Are Organic Foods Safer or Healthier than Conventional Alternatives?” It is a good question, one that many citizens. But, the fact is the researchers didn’t really answer it.
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Casting Doubt on Organic Food
by guest blogger Maya Rodale. I don’t care about the nutritional differences between organic and conventional produce. I buy organic because I like supporting cleaner air, cleaner water, fewer toxins released into the environment, and the creation of an organic, sustainable food system that will feed future generations. Now, if only organic food could get some good PR, even with all this in its favor.
People Don’t Want to Eat Pesticides
by guest blogger Alex Formuzis. Millions of Americans have come to rely on Environmental Working Group’s Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce so they can eat plenty of healthy organic and conventional fruits and veggies without a bunch of pesticides. But the Alliance for Food and Farming, a front group for pesticide sprayers, is demanding that we cease publishing our list immediately.
Where Do Strawberries Come From?
This year I am blessed with an EPIC strawberry crop. This is the second year of them. Last year they were too young to produce much. And I know that they won’t be this productive forever, but holy cow, these babies are beautiful and perfect.
Organic Farming in a NYC
Public School
by guest blogger Alberto Gonzalez. Hatching chicks from eggs, growing kale, and making homemade vanilla ice cream with only five ingredients. I’m not talking about life on a bucolic farm, or a culinary studies program for potential farm-to-table chefs—this is what’s going on at a public school in New York City.
Eat Local App:
Fresh Foods at Your Fingertips
by guest blogger Wendy Gordon. Finding where to buy regionally harvested goodies has never been so simple. While planning dinner earlier today, I plugged my work zip code into the NRDC Eat Local app and (ta-da!) local markets popped up, making my lunchtime grocery run quick and easy.
How to Make Organic Food Shopping
Fun for Kids (and Parents!)
Food-shopping with kids can be an exercise in saying no over and over again until one is so exhausted and depressed that one finally says yes just once, and that’s how bad things come into the house. So, I created a game. It’s a fun game that works very, very well. It’s kind of like a cross between Where’s Waldo and I Spy…
Ten Things I Have to Plant Every Year (no matter what)
Spring is a time to start over and try new things, but after 30 years of gardening, there are the tried-and-true that simply must be planted every year. This is my list.
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.
Order NowOrganic Manifesto
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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