Organic farmers association in Kerala wins international award for innovative farming

http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/organic-farmers-association-kerala-wins-international-award-innovative-farming-101996 Lots of interesting stuff happening in India 😊

Organic farming can drive transition to sustainable food systems

Organic farming can drive transition to sustainable food systems https://conferencesnews.wordpress.com/2019/05/13/organic-farming-can-drive-transition-to-sustainable-food-systems-2/ — Read on conferencesnews.wordpress.com/2019/05/13/organic-farming-can-drive-transition-to-sustainable-food-systems-2/ Food and soil!

Scientists breed hazelnuts as the next cash crop for Midwest farmers

phys.org/news/2019-05-scientists-hazelnuts-cash-crop-midwest.html Hazelnuts can replace soybeans, create perennial landscapes, end chemical fertiliser and herbicide use.

Soil is Alive

Soil is Alive http://purelovesustainabilityinc.com/2019/04/10/soil-is-alive/ — Read on purelovesustainabilityinc.com/2019/04/10/soil-is-alive/

164. Five Organic Acres & Ten Trillion Cut From Mitigation Costs

This is the World Organic News for the week ending the 15th of April 2019. Jon Moore reporting! Decarbonise the air, recarbonise the soil! Five Acres in Tipperary We start this week with a look at an organic farm in Tipperary. Five acres of production set in 13.5. Now I think we can all agree …

5 Organic Acres in Tipp.

http://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/growing-an-organic-vegetable-enterprise-on-5ac/ Organic growers in Ireland on five acres.

Continual improvement.

http://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/organic-farming-improved-but-still-flaws-with-traceability-eu-auditors-find/

Spilling the Beans: New Book Blows the Lid off Montana’s Organic “Lentil Underground”

By Katherine Seligman Here in Northern California, the heart of the organic food movement, lentils are often taken for granted—a lowly shelf staple lacking the cult status of coffee, wine or artisan chocolate. But there is much to learn from these humble legumes, insists Liz Carlisle, a former country music singer and Harvard grad who is …

A message of hope

Last year, the United Nation's Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) officially declared that 2015 would be celebrated as the International Year of the Soil, citing the threat to one of the key ingredients to the planet's food and farming systems posed by "expanding cities, deforestation, unsustainable land use, pollution, overgrazing and climate change." Though many …

Organic 101: Organic Seeds Are Fundamental Right from the Start

Posted by Miles McEvoy, Deputy Administrator of the National Organic Program, on December 18, 2014 at 4:00 PM Like other organic products, seeds used in organic agriculture cannot be genetically engineered or be treated with prohibited substances. This is the twenty-second installment of the Organic 101 series that explores different aspects of the USDA organic …