Certified Organic: Crabtree Farms Earns Designation
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By Anne P. Braly, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Sep. 5--Crabtree Farms recently became one of just a handful of farms in Tennessee and one of only two in Hamilton County to be certified as an organic farm. The other is Tom O'Neal's Dhamma Farm on Signal Mountain, certified in 2005.
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By The Bellingham Herald, Bellingham, Wash.  Sep. 5--Sustainable Connections' Food & Farming program will sponsor the second annual Buy Fresh Eat Local Week and Eat Local Pledge, Sept. 10-16.
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Multi-Media Productions (USA), Inc. announces the appearance of  American Probiotics on World Business Review hosted by General  Alexander Haig.  Eliminating the dependency on chemicals may result in substantial cost  savings and healthier turf for grass and tree growth.
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By Andy Reid, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Feb. 23--A new marketplace planned to spring from agricultural land west of Boynton Beach got a go-ahead Thursday from the Palm Beach County Commission.
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ORANGEVILLE, Ontario, June 4  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Organic Recycling Technologies Inc. ("The Company") (Pink Sheets: ORCY) -- today announced that Mr. Ed Kroeker, President & CEO, has released his due diligence review of the past history of the Company concerning the appointment of Michael D.
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WEIRSDALE-- Longtime Marion County citrus grower Neal Dudley scanned a portion of his 20-acre grove and said the recent onslaught of hurricanes didn&#39;t damage a single tree.
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By The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Dec. 16--Citrus trees are popular backyard plants in and near Stanislaus County, despite their tiny role in the region's commercial agriculture.
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By Ian Swanson Scottish Political Editor  BUSINESS is booming for Scotland's organic farms.   New figures published today show Scottish farmers are now producing enough to meet 70 per cent of the demand for local organic food - twice the level five years ago.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 14  /PRNewswire/ -- Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff today announced that Sudden Oak Decline, Phytophthora ramorum, has been confirmed from Rhododendrons sampled during routine testing in a Delaware County garden center.
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Organic farming sounds simple &#151; no chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides or genetically engineered plants. But succeeding at it can be complicated. A recent wave of research at universities around the country seeks to take some of the guesswork and financial uncertainty out of the practice.
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By Page, Brian  Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California. By Julie Guthman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
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By Erika Pesantes, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Mar. 12--WEST BOYNTON -- A controversial development that offered affordable housing before Palm Beach County made it a requirement is welcoming residents onto the former site of a 42-acre bell pepper farm.
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Horizon OrganicÂ®  farmer-partner Forrest Stricker is passionate about organic dairy  farming and recently had the opportunity to share his farming practices  with Congressman Joe Pitts (R, PA-16), a member of the House Organic  Caucus.
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By Dennis Pollock, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Jun. 8--The Case Vander Eyk Jr. Dairy in Pixley has lost its certification to sell organic milk after being targeted by a Wisconsin-based organics watchdog organization that accused the megadairy of skimping on pasture requirements.
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The leading distributor of natural and organic foods beats revised expectations.
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Earmarks are only pork when someone else is feasting on them. On your plate, they're veggies. They are the train that takes you to visit Aunt Betty, or the health clinic down the street, or the waste treatment plant that makes your water safer to drink. They're not all bridges to nowhere. They're also bicycle trails to somewhere.
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QUINCY -- Tara Withington, with her two young sons in tow, combs the aisles of Hannaford Bros. Co. supermarket for what she deems healthy enough to feed her family. Besides reading ingredients and studying her fruit for bruises, Withington says she needs a guarantee the organic foods she buys are kept far, far away from the store's conventional products.