After hearing story after story about the therapeutic and life-changing effects of gardening on the mentally challenged, I couldn't help but notice a pattern.  It's more like the pattern noticed me, and asked me to write about it.    On a recent broadcast of This American Life, Veronica Chater tells the story of her developmentally disabled [...]

In an article today on Truth About Trade & Technology, Chairman Dean Kleckner criticizes former UN chief Kofi Annan for his rejection of the use of GMO crops by his organization the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa.  According to Kleckner: [...]

As reported by the Public Patent Foundation, four of Monsanto's key patents related to genetically modified (GM) crops have been rejected by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. After dozens of cases against North American farmers, the most well-known being Monsanto v Percy Schmeiser, the US Patent Office has [...]

As the debate in Congress heats up over the revision and passage of the Farm Bill, the Democratic Congress is trying to find ways to pander and pork-barrel their way to re-election by keeping open the floodgate of subsidies to the farmers in their districts. And as the Democratic [...]

In a recent interview on the Agroinnovations Podcast, Paul Stamets, mycologist and ecological pioneer, had this to say: "There's a form of biological racism, unfortunately, that I have been confronting all of my life. And, people are prejudiced against mushrooms. [...]