Organic Farming

The dawn of agriculture began thus modestly one seed and species at a time. Agriculture and the taming of all-things-wild spread like a bushfire transforming human culture and the landscape. The very biodiversity of the planet was in peril as agriculture took hold and it’s taken us quite some time to look back. The […]

Biodiversity: Past and Future in Organic Farming

This entry was posted in Organic Farming on August 4, 2017 by terramadre

By Civil Eats BY ELIZABETH GROSSMAN Is organic food better for us? A growing number of scientific studies suggest that it is. And now, the latest evidence to support this claim is a new report from the European Parliament, written by scientists at universities across Europe, including one who is also a professor at Harvard. The […]

Can Organic Food Prevent a Public Health Crisis?

This entry was posted in Organic Farming on August 2, 2017 by terramadre

n 2010 Eosta sold the first boxes of organic sweet potatoes from the USA to Dutch health food stores; in 2017 the organic tubers, now coming from six different countries, are transported by the truckload to major retail chains such as ICA in Sweden and REWE in Germany, marked with Natural Branding laser tattoos. International […]

Organic sweet potatoes take off in Europe

This entry was posted in Organic Farming on July 24, 2017 by terramadre

Americans love to eat. Each person devours, on average, 1,996 lbs – or nearly a ton – of food per year. The enormous effort to satisfy that big appetite creates significant environmental impacts, from fertilizers leaching into our water supplies and overfishing to massive die-offs of bees from pesticides and habitat loss. Our eating habits […]

Will 2017 be the year we get serious about sustainable ...

This entry was posted in Organic Farming and tagged sustainable food on April 9, 2017 by terramadre

Five years ago, when Lankenau Medical Center was confronted with evidence that it was serving the unhealthiest county in Pennsylvania, the hospital decided to embrace the findings with an unconventional approach: building a half-acre organic farm on its campus to provide fresh produce to patients. The teaching and research hospital just outside Philadelphia was in […]

This Hospital Prescribes Fresh Food From Its Own Organic Farm

This entry was posted in Organic Farming on March 10, 2017 by terramadre

The Qatari government encourages local farmers to use innovative agricultural methods to boost production as well as provides support to promote organic farming in Qatar’s agricultural industry, said an expert. “The government is encouraging new ways to boost production of farms like hydroponics. Farmers who use hydroponics, for example, can take loan from the government […]

Qatar props up organic farming

This entry was posted in Organic Farming and tagged organic farming on January 7, 2017 by terramadre

It’s time to harvest sunflowers: October garden calendar October garden chores can be challenging, but here’s a fun one: Harvest sunflower heads and use the seeds for birdseed or roast them to eat for yourself. Here is the October garden calendar: Planning If needed, improve soil drainage needs of lawns before rain begins […]

It’s time to harvest sunflowers: October garden calendar

This entry was posted in Organic Farming on December 3, 2016 by terramadre

The Benefits Of Storage Grain In Steel Silos Most often, grain is stored in warehouses and there is nothing wrong about it. Warehouses can store the grain according to your particular requirements and follow all the necessary procedures to protect the grain for long periods of time. However, steel silos to store grain […]

The Benefits Of Storage Grain In Steel Silos

This entry was posted in Organic Farming on November 30, 2016 by terramadre

Can we feed 10 billion people on organic farming alone? In 1971, then US Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz uttered these unsympathetic words: “Before we go back to organic agriculture in this country, somebody must decide which 50 million Americans we are going to let starve or go hungry.” Since then, critics have continued to […]

Can we feed 10 billion people on organic farming alone?

This entry was posted in Organic Farming on October 20, 2016 by terramadre