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Victory! Judge closes industry loophole, barring pesticides from compost used in organic food production

6/30/2016 - In a victory for organic consumers, a federal judge has tossed out a rule change by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that permitted the use of compost containing synthetic pesticides in growing organic foods. "The court's decision upholds the integrity of the organic standard and is an incredible...

Washington group proposes composting the dead to use as garden soil

12/26/2015 - If you were given the choice of how your body should be handled after you depart from this level of existence, which of the following would you choose: Normal burial in a cemetery plot, cremation with ashes in an urn or decomposition into compost for planting trees or crops. Of course, the first...

Urban Death Project seeks to compost dead humans to feed the crops: has it really come to this?

3/22/2015 - A Seattle architect named Katrina Spade has proposed a new solution for urban food production: convert the recently deceased into nutritious compost to feed the food crops. The project is called the Urban Death Project, and it describes the process of turning dead humans into food as follows: The...

Learn how to keep your greenhouse warm while staying off-grid

3/4/2015 - Keeping your greenhouse warm during the winter months can be a real challenge, especially if you don't want to use electricity to maintain adequate temperature levels. Germinating and growing plants in the cold season can be particularly difficult, especially when the nighttime temperatures plummet. Even...

Benefits to composting for organic sustainability in natural vegetable gardens

5/16/2012 - No one knows who discovered the benefits of composting by planting seeds in the refuse of human, animal, mineral and vegetable waste materials. Regardless of its origin, it's clear that life grows from death. Drawing new life from the leavings of the past has been happening on earth since the beginning,...

How to grow big, fat happy worms and beautiful compost

2/26/2012 - Good soil is crucial to a productive garden. Healthy soil will contain live microbes that are mostly dormant when soil is the typical, neglected landscape. Microbes rapidly propagate when soil is nurtured by controlling moisture and organic matter or compost. To get a compost pile started you need straw...

Many types of organic compost are really packaged human sewage

5/6/2011 - Do you want everything that goes down your drain winding up on your backyard produce? Well that's what happens to those who use organic compost made with municipal sewage. More than half of the 15 trillion gallons of sewage flushed annually by Americans ends up in a fertilizer product and those products...

Composting: Give Back to Mother Earth

7/21/2009 - The state of our environment has gotten so bad, that if you`re paying attention and have a bone of compassion in your body, it`s more than a little disturbing. A lump of trash is floating in the water near the North Pole twice the size of France; it`s about 33 feet deep. Landfills around the world are...

Finding the Powerful Forces of Nature in the Compost Pile

1/1/2009 - Philosophers throughout history have sought out grand theories to define Nature, as if there were a unifying feature. The ancient Greeks were particularly curious in this regard, though they had very little evidence to work with. In the early 6th century BC, Thales postulated that the primary substance...

Finding God in the Compost Pile

10/23/2008 - Philosophers throughout history have sought out grand theories to define Nature, as if there were a unifying feature. The ancient Greeks were particularly curious in this regard, though they had very little evidence to work with. In the early 6th century BC, Thales postulated that the primary substance...

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