Living Green: Smaller Farms Finding New Economic Foothold In Agriculture World
PJ Star
April 27th, 2012
For the Brockman family, agriculture is a sustainable way of life grown on smaller acres than the typical mass producer of corn and soybeans. The family plants hundreds of vegetables, fruits and herbs on the kind of farm that, 15 to 20 years ago, was about as common to find as a local community college student rushing off to operate a farm.
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Yes! Magazine 
February 13th, 2012
Going beyond organic, a new generation of farmers is nurturing nature as well as crops.
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Planet Green
January 10th, 2012
The hold out for many of those that cling to conventional farming has often been that it will be impossible for organic farming to feed the world. It’s more expensive and the crops aren’t as strong, right? Wrong. This is far from the truth according to a new UN study reported on Civil Eats.
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Yes! Magazine
November 30th, 2011
In West Africa, women’s resistance to the new Green Revolution shows that the question of agricultural sustainability is also a question of equality.
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City Farmer
October 28th, 2011
Thirty farmers from different barangays in this municipality participated in the four-day training on urban agriculture conducted by the municipal agriculture office to equip them with modern methods and techniques.
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Huffington Post
April 18th, 2012
Buying organic is a powerful change-making action, but it’s also a relatively easy one. You put the organic food in your cart, hand over the cash, and head home with a bag full of food you can feel good about. Defending your choice to support organic can sometimes be a little trickier.
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New Agriculturist
January 11th, 2012
In particular, the research team wanted to test the hypothesis that a diversified system would offer improved ecosystem services, and that these would contribute to enhanced food security among a broad base of Malawi’s rural poor.
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City Farmer
December 8th, 2011
Located in a mixed use urban zone in central Bangkok, the Urban Farm Urban Barn aims to return green areas to the booming city.
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Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources
November 8th, 2011
From kindergarten to college, interest in serving locally grown foods in cafeterias is increasing in Massachusetts and throughout the northeast U.S.
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Ajiri Tea
October 25th, 2011
Ajiri Tea was started with the social mission of creating employment for the people of western Kenya and of educating the local orphans.
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