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Organic and Sustainable Agriculture News

Farmers markets grow with government support
Zester Daily - 3/25/2011.

By Deborah Madison – Little Rock was one of the first cities I went to when I started visiting farmers markets across the country for my book "Local Flavors." When my husband and I went to check out the farmers market, it was immediately clear that there weren't any farmers there. Peddlers were the sellers, not growers.

Mind Games How toxic chemicals are impairing children’s ability to learn
Orion - 3/25/2011.by Sandra Steingraber. A family of substances that impair the growth of the brain in ways that interfere with learning takes many forms, according to a major review of the evidence published in 2006 in the British medical journal The Lancet. Some of them are heavy metals, such as lead and methylmercury. Some are long-outlawed compounds that still linger among us (PCBs). One common one is used to strip paint, turn crude oil into gasoline, extract natural gas from shale, and suspend pigment in some nail polishes (toluene). Another two hundred chemicals are known to act as neurological poisons in human adults and are likely toxic to the developing brains of infants and children as well — animal studies strongly suggest that any neurotoxic chemical is likely also a neurodevelopmental toxicant —but scientific confirmation awaits.

“Little beards” and the Marketplace
Bangor Daily News - 3/24/2011.Editorial: As lawmakers consider a bill to move ahead with Maine’s phaseout of BPA in children’s products, they should know that this debate is over nationally.

March Maple Madness: From tree to table, syrup is a versatile ingredient
Bangor Daily News - 3/23/2011.

by Emily Burnham. Mainers don’t know how lucky they are when it comes to maple syrup. In other parts of the country, a tiny pint of the sweet, golden liquid costs a pretty penny. But in New England, maple syrup is plentiful and nowhere near as expensive.

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