One of the problems caused by commercial agriculture is monoculture. It partially explains the existence of disease and large-scale insect infestation - just like overcrowding of people partially...
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One of the problems caused by commercial agriculture is monoculture. It partially explains the existence of disease and large-scale insect infestation - just like overcrowding of people partially...
From eating food grown in more than one place, over several years, I learned something that surprised me at first (this was 40 years ago): with many kinds of f's and v's, when you eat them, you can...
songlife "I also don't like the idea about more manure being used to produce organic."
Not only is animal excrement used as a manure, but animal bones and animal blood (blood collected at...
There are good farming methods and bad farming methods, and good farming methods result in vegetables with more micronutrients, different macronutrient profiles, and better flavor, than bad farming...
Not all non-organic produce is extensively treated with chemicals either. Some farmers use pesticides and commercial plant food sparingly.
Fresh produce grown with good farming methods that...