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Home Town Farms Solves Skyrocketing Food Costs

How vertical, urban, organic farming provides high quality, affordable food that is good to eat and good for the planet.READ»

Indonesia's Organic "Learning Farm" Offers Street Kids a Path Toward Jobs

The farm helps children from violent backgrounds learn new skills, while teaching "respect for other creatures." If deals with the Four Seasons Hotel company and major supermarkets come through, the endeavor would get a considerable boost.READ»

Kauai's Cloudwater Tea Farm Is Former Flight Attendant's Decade-Long Experiment

The organic farming trend is making its stamp on the island state and on a product sparsely grown in the United States.READ»

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Tomato Blight: Centralized Gardening Strikes a Nasty Blow to Local Agriculture

"Late blight," related to the disease that caused gthe Irish potato famine in the 1840s, has been ravaging organic farms and gardens in my area of Western Massachusetts. Ironically, it's been traced to <a ...READ»

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How Can We Feed 9 Billion People?

It's difficult enough trying to feed everyone on the planet now, but how much more difficult will it get when the world population balloons to nine billion people in 2050? That's the question Deutsche Bank tried to answer in a new ...READ»