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APPLEGATE, Ore. (AP) — At Blue Fox Farm, the tractor is old but the fuel is new.

Like a small but growing number of organic farmers around the country, Chris Jagger has converted an old Allis-Chalmers Model G tractor built in the 1940s to run on electricity at his farm in southwest Oregon.

NORWAY, Iowa—Simply Organic® established a scholarship award in perpetuity for the Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

LONDON (Reuters) - The conversion of all UK farmland to organic farming would achieve the equivalent carbon savings to taking nearly one million cars off the road, the Soil Association said on Thursday.

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Choosing fertilizers and soil amendments for your organic garden is easy, once you understand that product labels for organic foods are different fr

In this clip from "What's Organic About Organic," organic farmer Andy Grant explains the philosophy behind organic agriculture and the importance it places on building up the soil.

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• How is manure used in conventional and organic agriculture?  What are some differences?

New York is a city of spectacles. Everywhere you turn, there are impressive buildings, extravagant billboards, and uniquely dressed people to behold. It may come as no surprise, then, that New York is also home to the Truck Farm, a green 1986 Dodge pick-up truck whose 40-foot bed has been converted into a CSA (community supported agriculture) that provides fresh produce to 12 subscribers in/around Brooklyn.

Since 1993, the Department of Community Supervision and Intervention (DCSI) at the Cook County Jail in Chicago, IL has given inmates the opportunity to participate in its Jail Garden Project.  The project, which has supplied over 500 tons of fresh produce to area homeless shelters and non-profit organizations since its inception, produces an average of 8,000 to 10,000 pounds of produce per season.   

With concerns about rising food prices and food safety has come a renewed interest in an old concept: victory gardens. People around the country are turning to this old-fashioned approach to food production with a new twist. Instead of using chemical-based fertilizers and pesticides to spur growth, they are using organic practices to cultivate healthy, productive plants.

For participants in the Organic Trade Association’s Policy Conference March 25, 2009 in Washington, D.C., one of the sidelights was observing the spreading of organic compost on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) new organic community garden. Donating the organic compost was the Rodale Institute.