Organic Food News

The head of a national body for Australian organic farmers says clearer benchmarks for the industry would help prevent rogue operators.

San Francisco is experiencing a victory garden revival this year. An organization called Victory Gardens 2008+, founded by artist Amy Franceschini, has just planted a Civic Center Victory Garden.

A debate has ignited over the nutritional benefits of organic produce compared to conventional, with recent analysis disputing claims of its nutritional superiority.

A new report has found that organic produce growers have experienced an 80 per cent growth in farm-gate sales over the last four years, despite the widespread drought.

Organic is hip. Locally grown organic is even hipper, and, minus the bling and attitude, local organic farmers are the new, off-the-grid rock stars.

The idea of organic food at Artscape seems so right - those artistic, hippie types eat a lot of sprouts and tofu, don't they? But it also seems so wrong.

By V.N. Balakrishna, Kathvada, July 19 : A practising cardiologist for 25 years, Dinesh Patel spends long hours cultivating grain, fruit and plants in his organic farm on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, Gujarat's ...

Jeannie Williams wants you to know where your food comes from. And that's not all.

Is organic food worth the premium price? Jeff Cox, author of The Organic Food Shopper's Guide , thinks so.

In recent years, organic food sales have jumped 17 to 20 percent annually, while sales of conventional food have stalled at a growth rate of 2 to 3 percent.

From Florida Trend : Matt McLean, founder and chief executive of Uncle Matt's Fresh, the organic-produce side of Uncle Matt's Organic citrus-juice business in Lake County, said Wednesday the number of organic ...

Gas and food prices are at record highs, and household budgets are getting clobbered.

Organic foods are now part of the mainstream food supply as fruits, vegetables, meats, poultry, eggs, canned goods, cereals and snack foods are flooding the store shelves.

In a display fridge at Claudia's Natural Food Market in Sylvania, Organic Valley Orange juice sells for $7.39 a half gallon.

As the credit crunch bites, experts are warning that consumers worried about rising costs have lost their appetite for organic food.

Todays crazy busy lifestyle makes it almost impossible to find enough time to buy healthy organic fruits and vegetables.

KOHD News asks whether that's changed your shopping or eating habits. "It makes me more determined to buy organic produce and shop at farmers markets, feel like the food's safer," says Leslie Horner of Bend.

THE amount of Welsh land classed as organic grew by more than a fifth last year, prompting a leading expert to predict all of Wales' farmland will one day make the switch.

By Arthi Sanpath Imagine a community where children play freely in indigenous gardens, where you and your neighbours share cars, where cycling lanes take you to nearby restaurants and shops, where all waste is ...

Tomorrow Alice Waters of Chez Panisse and Mayor Gavin Newsom will throw on their best overalls and make like farmers for Community Planting Day at the new Slow Foods Victory Garden at City Hall .