Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920-1950.
Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920-1950. By John van Willigen and Anne van Willigen. Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History Series. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c. 2006. Pp. xx, 260. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2387-5.) Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920-1950 documents rural...

Preserve(R) Gimme 5 Program Offers Recyclers With Polypropylene #5 Plastics a Convenient Recycling Option.
With few municipal programs accepting #5, Preserve teams with Organic Valley, Stonyfield Farm and Whole Foods Market(R) WALTHAM, Mass., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Recyclers with good intentions, but no place to go with their yogurt cups and other #5 polypropylene plastics have had few options -- until...

What's Your Vision for an Organic Future?
Organic Valley Launches Online Media Gallery at www.OrganicRising.com Individuals Can Share Passion for Healthy & Sustainable Future Through Online Video, Music, and Photos LA FARGE, Wis., Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Passionate about organic food and excited about change for the better? Beginning Feb. 1, Organic...

It's peak season for Coombs Family Farms Maple Candy!
March is peak season for collecting maple syrup, and you will be able to tell with your first bite of Coombs Family Farms Pure Maple Candy. Available as individual candies or in gift boxes of maple bonbons sculpted into hearts, shells, and other shapes, these tasty treats are made...

Anti-Farm Bill.
To reduce pressure on Manitoba's water quality, the provincial government's tactic was to ban construction and expansion of hog barns in most of the eastern part of the province. Bill 17, the Environmental Amendment Act, isn't popular with the hog industry, though some family farms say they prefer a...

Report: U.S. industrial farming endangers health, environment: practices promote disease, contamination.
They supply much of the foods people worldwide eat every day, but industrial animal farms are also home to dangerous public health and environmental threats, says a new report that describes such risks as "unacceptable" and charts a path toward sustainable farming. Far from yesterday's humble family...

About Heifer International.
Heifer International (www.heifer.org), a world hunger organization, provides the perfect holiday gift alternative and allows students, teachers and parents to help impoverished families who are among the 2 billion people living on less than $2 a day gain better livelihoods by providing livestock and earth-friendly agricultural training for family...

Whole Foods Market Supports Farm Aid.
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-1 December 2008-Whole Foods Market Supports Farm Aid(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Whole Foods Market's Portland and Seattle locations raised more than $30,000 to support Farm Aid's work to help current farmers, put new farmers on the land, and support connections between farmers and...

Produce and fruit growers answer the bell; Farm-to-school plan local.
Byline: Bradford L. Miner Fall has always been one of Mark Tuttle's favorite times of the year. And no wonder, when Breezeland Orchards in Warren produces a bumper crop of apples and peaches. For the second consecutive year, some of the orchard's bounty...

Niman Ranch Honors Oprah for Highlighting Humanely Raised Meats.
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-15 October 2008-Niman Ranch Honors Oprah for Highlighting Humanely Raised Meats(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Niman Ranch said that it applauds The Oprah Winfrey Show for highlighting humanely, sustainably raised meats. The program was prompted by an upcoming vote on a California...