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1. As a master gardener, I am slightly obsessed with compost! Why? Because it's filled with our pals, the earthworms and a plethora of microorganisms who go around 24/7 decomposing leaves, grass clippings, old plants and other organic material. This naturally occurring decayed material becomes compost -- free lunch for our plants! I don't buy fertilizers for my plants. I feed my entire yard with a layer of compost a few times a year.

In this clip, KVIE Public Television reports from Alemany Farm, a four acre organic paradise amidst the urban sprawl of one of San Francisco's worst crime areas.

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Washington, D.C. - The spread of weeds resistant to Roundup herbicide is bringing new scrutiny to the government's regulation of biotech crops.

U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, a longtime critic of the biotech industry, said the U.S. Agriculture Department has been too quick to approve new varieties of herbicide-tolerant crops and other biotech products.

Farmers in the South started noticing the problem before anyone else. When they sprayed their fields with Roundup weed killer, weeds kept growing anyway. In some areas, fields became so choked with weeds that farmers abandoned them.

Starting an organic garden is a great way to contribute fresh fruit and vegetables to the family meals, as well as to make a positive environmental impact. Organic gardening offers many benefits to gardeners, and starting one is simple. Focusing on annual cycles of growth and harvest, preparing the garden beds properly and using high quality plants and organic fertilizer are the best things any organic gardener can do.

Organic gardening  at home is a very beneficial practice. Gardeners all over the world grow organic gardens for pleasure, profit and food, and there are significant benefits to growing an organic garden. An organic garden benefits both individuals and the general community in a number of ways. Each organic garden has the potential to benefit individuals financially, with regards to their health and improve the environment.

Stop by Jerry Dell Farm on any given weekday and you'll probably find farmer Vaughn Sherman mixing up a batch of feed or doing one of a million chores, all in service of the health of his 400 Holstein cows.

Against the backdrop of hundreds of acres of rolling green hills on Gee Hill Road, the Sherman family's "pets" graze contentedly for much of the year, munching on grass and clover in between their two milkings each day, at 3 a.m. and 3 p.m., when they amble back into the farm's milking parlor.

Actress and  model Elizabeth Hurley is reportedly starring in a new TV reality series, which will document life on her 400-acre organic farm in Gloucestershire, U.K.

The farm in southwest England breeds pigs, geese, cows and sheep. Organic meat from the animals are sold to supermarkets and restaurants.

Hurley purchased the farm five years ago with husband Arun Nayar.

The new show airs on the Living channel, and filming is expected to start later this year.

To an organic farmer, not all insects are created equal! Beneficial insects are extremely important allies in our fight against crop-damaging pests. Here are some of the beneficial insects we use, and the pests they prey on.

OPERATING a successful farm is a notion that is thriving in the virtual world. Some 20 million people check into FarmVille daily to plow pretend fields or buy, plant and harvest crops on online farms.

A FarmVille farm that represents the real, organic Cascadian Farm, which is a unit of General Mills, in Washington State.