sustainable agriculture

At the U.S. Conference of the Mayors last week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke about the environmental and agricultural importance of vertical farming. Specifically, he spoke of VertiCrop high density growth systems; suspended tray systems that use UV lighting and filters in place of herbicides and pesticides, and which produce… Read the rest

My friend is up for one of the coveted internships at Polyface Farm, that near-utopian model of sustainable agriculture of The Omnivore’s Dilemma… Read the rest fame. He just returned from his interview at the farm in Virginia’s verdant Shenandoah Valley (he finds out about the internship in January — fingers crossed!), and

Since reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma… Read the rest, I’ve found myself thinking a lot about where our food comes from, and this has led me to now question nearly every food purchase I make, from produce to eggs. It’s no longer enough for me to buy organic; as anyone who’s ever seen