Topic: California
California boosts enforcement of organic rules in effort to fight fraud at farmers marketsIt's been barely a year since Luis Miranda began selling organic produce at farmers markets near his home in California's Central Valley, but he's already seen every trick in ...
Festival of shorts includes at least two on organic farms Organic food farmer Jules Dervaes harvests up to 6,000 pounds of fruits and vegetables annually from the yard of his California bungalow, one mile from downtown Pasadena. He has spent the past ...
Hundreds of organic farmers meeting in Mass. for annual conference to talk tips, trendsBarbara Wefing has been growing fruits and vegetables organically for nearly 60 years, ever since she kept most of the seed packets she was supposed to sell for her ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - California farmer Tom Willey was first attracted to organic farming 21 years ago after noticing how many chemicals he was using in conventional farming. As a certified organic farmer selling everything from artichokes to zucchinis from his 75-acre farm ...
Farmers worry as once-booming organic industry expects 1st sales drop in years; some want outThe organic dairy industry was thriving when Allen and Jean Moody bought a 200-acre Wisconsin dairy farm in 2006 and joined the ranks of farmers churning out milk ...
Suspicions of spiked organic fertilizer prompt calls for better oversightOrganic grower Phil McGrath plays by the rules to keep his Ventura County strawberry and vegetable farm certified organic. So suspicions that at least two fertilizer companies have been peddling synthetic fertilizer as ...