Tag: organic

The Freedge aims to reduce food insecurity and food waste in communities all over the world. The movement promotes equal access to healthy food through public refrigerators that are used to share fresh food, fruits and vegetable. The movement is relatively new with the first community fridges appearing in 2016 in Europe. It became a worldwide effort and the movement has grown rapidly in recent years because of the pandemic, with over 1,000 community fridges operating in Europe, Canada and the United States.

Through the Organic Market Development Grant Program up to $75 million will fund projects to improve markets for domestically-produced organic goods.

Organic Valley offered 80 farms in the Northeast a market for their milk after being dropped by Horizon Organic and Maple Hill.

Alan Guebert explains why hundreds of other long-time organic farmers maintain that large portions of USDA-labeled "organic" products are not truly organic.

Alan Guebert dissects the fight over clear, national and enforceable organic standards.

Organic Valley is testing out new technology using satellite imagery to measure pasture health with 22 farms, including five in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania leads the country in organic livestock and poultry sales, with $449 million in sales in 2019, according to the recently released 2019 Organic Survey.

More than 50 Pennsylvania farmers have committed 4,000 acres to become organic through Rodale Institutes farm consulting program.

READING, Pa. (AP) — The owner of Trickling Springs Creamery that abruptly closed its doors last fall is accused of milking investors to the tune of nearly $60 million.

Phillip Griffiths, an associate professor at Cornell AgriTech, has released organic grape tomato varieties that are profitable and pack a culinary punch.