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Gotta
love that garlic breadth
New! October 13, 2005: A pungent plethora of festivals
celebrate the diversity--and marketability--of this culinary, medicinal
and ever-popular allium. Staff writer Dan Sullivan offers growing
tips, varietal advice and insights into what makes for a successful
garlic fest. MORE
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Organic community
split over synthetics—and who holds the power
• Ag cuts imminent
• Conservation
programs cut even as subsidy programs offered to world trade
• Cotton yields
hold priority over worker health in Turkmenistan
• The potato finds
its home in Peru
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Pro-choice
AND pro-life
New! October 13, 2005: There’s strong evidence,
says ecologist and writer Sandra Steingraber, that agricultural
chemicals cause miscarriages and deformities, contaminate breast
milk, disrupt vulnerable stages in life like adolescence, and are
the source of problems in old age—such as Parkinson’s
disease. With the rigor of a scientist and lyricism of a poet, she
addresses these issues. MORE
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Welcome to our expanded
Farming for Credit Directory!
New!
October 13, 2005: Browse through information on course
offerings and hands-on experiences available at more than 70 colleges
and universities around the country. T
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