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Resource Guide for Organic Insect and Disease Management

MOFGA's Country Store is now selling the second edition of the Resource Guide for Organic Insect and Disease Management. This popular book is a helpful aid for farmers, home gardeners, extension professionals and farm advisors looking for accurate information based on published research. MOFGA's own Crop Specialist, Eric Sideman, is a co-writer for this resource guide! Get your copy today for only $20!

Organic and Sustainable Agriculture News
Delectable food-politics books of '08: Vandana Shiva's Soil Not Oil
Grist - 12/24/2008.
A number of worthy food-politics books emerged this year, and over the next week I'll be posting reviews of the year's top ten. Today's is Vandana Shiva's Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis.
Is a new food policy on Obama’s list?
New York Times - 12/24/2008.
From the moment it was clear that Barack Obama was going to be president, people who have dedicated their lives to changing how America eats thought they had found their St. Nicholas. It wasn’t long before the letters to Santa began piling up.
Fresh eggs, finances and fun: families flock to keep hens
The Guardian [UK] - 12/24/2008.
Urban henkeeping is on the rise, fuelled by the economic downturn and pressure on family budgets. It was a farm holiday in Wales that persuaded Vicki Gilmore from Edinburgh that it might be a good idea to keep her own hens. She bought three, named them Maisie, Milly, and Molly, and set up a coop in her garden.
Study finds GM corn disturbs immune system of mice
Organic Consumers - 12/24/2008.
Italy's National Institute of Research on Food and Nutrition recently published a report online in the Journal of Agricultural Food Chemistry documenting significant disturbances in the immune system of young and old mice that have been fed the genetically modified corn MON 810.
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