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Exploring Sustainability and Our Food System with OrganicNation

by Becky Striepe on December 30th, 2009

What does organic really mean? How does food really go from farm to table? City girl Dorothee Royal teamed up with photographer Mark Andrew Boyer to answer those questions and document their adventure as they “explore America’s sustainable food landscape.” They’re traveling the U.S. visiting organic farms, community gardens, and restaurants to learn about where [...]

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Help Green the White House with an Organic Farm

by Derek Markham on January 6th, 2009

Eat the View is a campaign to turn part of the White House’s 18 acre lawn back into an edible landscape. The Garden of Eatin’ video tells the story of the “America’s Garden” from 1800 when President John Adams planted the first “first vegetables” to feed his own family to the present day. It ends [...]

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The Buzzzznesss of Bees

by John Platt on September 29th, 2008

By now, you’ve probably heard about the horror of colony collapse disorder. Bees around the world are disappearing, dying off, dropping like flies, and no one knows 100% why. But what we do know is that where the bees go, so goes most of our food.

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