Growing organic vegetables from seed is a great way to combine healthy diet and healthy exercise. Most people want to start small, but maybe you already did that. Maybe you loved your small organic garden so much you decided to expand it into a small farm. Perhaps you and your friends have set aside land […]
With allergies on the increase and sensitivities to synthetics becoming life threatening,we are looking for products which aren?t going to make us sneeze or break out in rashes or irritate our children?s sensitive skin. We scan the supermarket and health food store shelves and find there is a huge range of products on our shelves […]
A couple of years ago, I visited an organic vegetable farm in southeast Minnesota, not far from the Mississippi River. Nestled in a valley that sloped down from rolling pasture and cropland sat Featherstone Fruits and Vegetables, a 40-acre farm.
Featherstone was part of a local food web in the upper Midwest, selling at a farmers' […]
When your college-age son reminds you that your supermarket foods are “dead” and that you're simply supporting government-subsidized monoculture farming practices, what do you do? Is the answer “natural and organic food”…but what does this mean, and what would you get if you convert to it?
When does a difference matter? Who hasn't been […]
When I first started hearing about ?organic? food, I was a little confused since all food, scientifically speaking, falls into the carbon-based organic category. But, in the world of grocery shopping ?organic? specifically refers to foods which meet the U.S. Department of Agriculture?s set of national standards concerning properly certified organic foods. Only […]
The word “organic” may appear on packages of meat, cartons of milk or eggs, cheese and other single-ingredient foods. Certified organic requires the rejection of synthetic agrochemicals, irradiation and genetically engineered foods or ingredients. Literally, of course, the term is a redundancy: all food is composed of organic chemicals (complex chemicals containing carbon). Any materials […]
So just what does organic mean for babies? There was a report done by a working environmental group that showed results including findings of a significant amount of toxic chemicals are found in the blood of newborns.
The American Red Cross ran a series of blood tests on 10 umbilical-cord samples and their findings included 287 […]
A key point to add at this stage is the difference between organically grown grapes - fruit from vineyards grown without the use of industrial fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides and pesticides - and wines made without synthetic preservative additives.
Organic Vineyards ? Where it all begins!
An organic vineyard is one where grapes are grown without chemical fertilizers, […]
I have been extensively researching Organic Skincare and Beauty products for a period of 3 years and have only found a very few products that are truly 100% certified organic, some claim to be natural but still contain chemicals due to spraying. I now feel that I have found the very best available and would […]
Since the end of the Second World War, milk has been mass-produced using intensive farming methods. It has been touted as good for us by health professionals and the dairy industry for decades, the average Britain guzzles over 86 litres of it each year and children love it, so it makes sense to ensure we […]