Dear EarthTalk: I want to start an organic vegetable garden in my yard and I would like to know how to combine crops to make better use of time and space.
Most commercial farms concentrate on growing a few select crops to supply a wide variety of customers, but gardening at home is a different [...]
Using the term “organic” to market everything from food to personal products to clothing is a relatively new use of the word. According to Wikipedia, “In 1939, Lord Northbourne coined the term organic farming in his book Look to the Land (written in 1939, but published in 1940), out of his conception of “the [...]
The people at Aroha Organics were nice enough to send me a bar of their Rosemary Mint organic soap to try out, and I have to say that I liked it a lot. A few weeks ago I wrote a “Do One Thing” post about buying local, handmade soaps, and if you happen to [...]
