From Dave Smith

Paul Newman & Michael Nischan Open Organic Restaurant
Michel Nischan, chef, cookbook author and avid proponent of healthy, sustainable and culturally significant food and social causes, has teamed up with like-minded actor and philanthropist Paul Newman to open Dressing Room – A Homegrown Restaurant, located on the grounds of the Westport Country Playhouse… to support local and regional farmers, fishers and producers, cooking food that recaptures the simple and pure tastes found in locally grown, natural and organic ingredients and strive to raise awareness of a sustainable food future.

It’s rapidly becoming an organic world
Conventional farmers who scoff at organic producers and brand them as members of the “muck and magic brigade” might do well to consider the global picture. Organic farming is now practised in more than 120 countries, taking up more than 30 million hectares on about 630,000 farms.

Clean eating may fight off cancer
…we are living in a world filled with chemicals, pesticides, additives, preservatives, antibiotic and hormone residues, and heavy metals. Whether consumed, inhaled, or absorbed, our bodies soak this stuff up. In order to reduce the load, and the toll it takes it takes on our health, there’s something we can do. We can eat clean. Here’s how…

Organic Meat and Dairy linked to better quality breast milk
The breast milk of mothers consuming organic meat and dairy contains higher levels of beneficial fatty acids, and has an overall imporved quality, suggests new research. “These findings provide scientific support for common sense, by showing that organic foods are healthier,”…

Research at the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
…has shown that runoff from the commonly used herbicide atrazine (that’s Round-Up) causes decreased protein levels in phytoplankton, free-floating algae that form the base of the food chain for aquatic animals. Meanwhile land under herbicide-free organic cultivation increased by 1 million acres in 2005 to over 4.5 million acres, and 2006 is expected to top that. Choosing organic food is truly voting for a clean environment with your food dollars. (From Jeff Cox)

It seems the moon really does have influence on gardening
The country gentleman, who keeps a close watch on his backyard vegetable patch, already had adopted some of the principles of biodynamic, a form of farming in which livestock are treated with homeopathic remedies rather than antibiotics, and astronomical calendars and signs of the zodiac play a role in determining when to sow and harvest crops.

Declaring Ireland a GMO-Free Zone
We reject the myth that GMO crops can “co-exist” with conventional and organic farming. We support the farmer’s right to a sustainable future and the consumer’s right to choose safe food.
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Dave Smith is author of To Be Of Use – The Seven Seeds of Meaningful Work and lives in Mendocino County, California.
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