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Much More Than Just Manure
Here is green manure number one, a lovely purple wisteria-in-miniature-like flower whose fragrance brings to mind anything but manure.
06.21.07
- Keywords
- tim stark,
- sustainability,
- farming,
- environment
food politics
Cannibal Rice
Cannibal rice is what Greenpeace calls the genetically engineered rice that the USDA recently approved for field trials.
05.29.07
magazine
Do I Dare to Eat a Shrimp?
Sure, they’re cheap, but what about the taste? And what do shrimp farms do to the environment? Here’s the lowdown on America’s favorite seafood.
March 2007
- Keywords
- barry estabrook,
- seafood,
- aquaculture,
- farms + fish,
- environment
food politics
And the Award for Best King Goes to…
Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej has won the Norman E. Borlaug Medallion for making major contributions to nutrition and sustainable agriculture.
10.27.06
- Keywords
- farms + fish,
- environment,
- asia,
- thailand,
- karen coates
magazine
Sustaining Vision
Deep in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley lives a self-described “grass farmer” who is living proof, as Michael Pollan discovers, that there is such a thing as a free lunch.
September 2002
- Keywords
- michael pollan,
- sustainability,
- ecology,
- slow food,
- environment
magazine
Where the Wild Things Are
Deep in the heart of northeastern Australia, an American couple is building a rain forest for the future.
July 2001
- Keywords
- corby kummer,
- australia,
- environment,
- agriculture