by Mark Kastel | Nov 11, 2021 | News Posts
Hello Supporters of Food Justice, We commercialized the organic farming movement in the 1980s in order to provide an alternative to consumers who were hungry for food produced to a different standard and as an economic-justice vehicle to empower family-scale farmers... 
by Mark Kastel | Nov 3, 2021 | News Posts
COMMENTARY BY ELIOT COLEMAN The interest in using soil-less hydroponic systems to grow food is an example of what Teddy Goldsmith decried in his book The Way (1992) as “the methodical substitution of the technosphere or surrogate world for the ecosphere or real... 
by Mark Kastel | Aug 3, 2021 | News Posts
COMMENTARY Article originally published by John Roulac at Medium Two hundred years ago, before the Industrial Revolution, the rivers across North America ran clear and blue. Rivers from the mighty Mississippi to the Columbia flowed wild and clean into the sea. In the... 
by Mark Kastel | Jul 2, 2021 | News Posts
Beyond Pesticides and Friends of the Earth Release Thorough Toxicology Analysis for Commercially Available Herbicide Products; Advocates for More Organic Options WASHINGTON, DC— Beyond Pesticides and Friends of the Earth (FOE) collaborated to analyze herbicide... 
by Mark Kastel | Jun 26, 2021 | News Posts
Article reprinted with permission from Organic Insider. To learn more and subscribe, click here. When we buy an organic product, we are trusting that the many people who have touched this item — the farmer, shipper, co-packer, distributor and retailer —... 
by Mark Kastel | Feb 2, 2021 | News Posts
I enjoyed this New York Times narrative. It’s a good story consistent with what I’ve heard from many other farmers. Those supplying restaurants had to turn on a dime. If they were not in a position to do so they were economically injured. I know that many...