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Pack a healthy lunch, and save a little cash: Ditch these food-industry Frankenfoods.
When it comes to Christmas trees, you can't beat the real deal.
We weigh the pros and cons to help you decide.
Find out which foods contain the most bugs and how to avoid eating them.
Meet six young horticulturists who are helping to shape how America gardens.
Maria Rodale explains the personal impact of the book "Self-Sufficient Life" by John Seymour.
Organic Gardening January 1949
Writing in 1948, J.I. Rodale discusses the growing organic movement and its practices, setting it at odds with the status quo of the day.
That flat of petunias at the garden center may come with a chemical catch.
When we said organic, we meant local, healthful, and just.
Is organic food worth the trouble? Yep.
The latest organic foods study focuses on nutrition—but that’s just a small part of the story.
the truth about poinsettia
Bored with the same old poinsettia plants you put out every year? Time to diversify.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture wants you to know your farmer—and be able to find him on a map.
The Farmer-Veteran Coalition helps train returning soldiers to be the next generation of farmers.
USDA zone map
Climate change is bringing milder winters—plus other, less-welcome changes.
A farmer and distinguished writer explains why it is vital that we understand where and how our food is produced.
Maria Rodale publishes a passionate defense of organic growing.
why school gardens matter
Cultivating the future, one child at a time, begins in a garden classroom.
Forget what’s trendy. Here’s the best reason to stick to the basics.
A new study finds that silver nanoparticles used to keep clothes from smelling don’t remain long enough to work.
Will Witherspoon
An NFL linebacker and sustainable farmer wants Congress to get antibiotics out of the meat industry.
green heron tools makes tools for women
Ann Adams and Liz Brensinger of Green Heron Tools.
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