The first Northeast city to adopt environmentally responsible purchasing guidelines city-wide, Boston also makes an explicit push for racial equity in its food procurement program, which will benefit schools and many more.
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John is a long-time advocate for healthy people and ecosystems, with expertise ranging from home composting and natural healing to forestry and hemp agriculture. John has authored four books on hemp and composting, with combined sales of more than one million copies.
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If you climb one of the many buttes that rise above western North Dakota, you’ll gaze upon a landscape of roaring methane flares, hidden pipelines and over 12,800 active oil wells. This is the Bakken oil boom, and it has helped make America the top world producer. But Cody Two Bears has a very different story to tell.
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The grizzly bears of Glendale Cove are the stars that draw international visitors to Knight Inlet Lodge. They are also the catalyst for one of the more than 100 successful First Nations businesses launched with the help of Coast Funds, an Indigenous-led conservation finance organization created through the 2006 Great Bear Rainforest agreements.
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Launching natural products and organic companies, as well as investing in them, is a challenge in today’s competitive retail and consumer products marketplace. Yet, consumer demand for healthier products continues to grow.
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As marijuana legalization drives down the price of pot, cannabis companies are increasingly marketing premium products with the same kinds of language used by Whole Foods or winemakers, invoking sunny fields of plants tended by smiling famers.
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Enjoy the health benefits of green beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) all year-round when you discover how to grow green beans in your garden, containers and even indoors. Green beans were originally grown in Central and South America. The vegetable was introduced to the Mediterranean region and cultivated around Italy, Greece and Turkey by the 17th century.
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When Keisha Cameron and her husband first started farming their 5 acres of land in Grayson, Georgia, in 2014, they worked the soil with what little they had: their arms, backs, shovels and rakes. They didn’t have the money for fencing or a motorized lawnmower. It took them two days just to cut the grass.
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The Atlanta City Council has voted to approve a measure that seeks to transform nearly 7.1 acres of vacant property into a park and food forest that would be open to the public free of charge. The vote sailed through on a unanimous vote on Monday. The move would result in the city’s first food forest and the largest of its kind in the country, according to the legislation.
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As farmers nationwide are facing extreme stressors and either consolidating or retiring, organic is going against the grain. Despite overall declines in the number of U.S. farms, the number of organic farms increased 27% between 2012 and 2017, according to new data from the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service.
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