Sustainability
Midwest high schools receive pollinator habitat grants
Imperiled insect pollinators and monarch butterflies will get some help from high school students this year. Sand County Foundation is awarding pol... more »
Why Lipman Family Farms invests in organics and sustainable packaging
New green initiatives at Lipman Family Farms have grown to fruition. Lipman started getting into organics about 10 years ago. It doubled down five ... more »
Organic Center, FFAR roll out $600K for organic research, training, tech support
The Organic Center today announced a new partnership with the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) to advance organic agriculture thr... more »
Michigan scientist named director of Cal Poly’s Center for Organic Production and Research
Matthew Grieshop, associate professor of organic pest management and director of the Sustainable Farming and Food Systems academic program at Michigan... more »
Pesticides can affect generations of bees, study finds
A new study from researchers at the University of California, Davis, finds that pesticides not only directly affect bee health, but effects from p... more »
Bonterra Organic Vineyards gets ‘climate neutral’ certification, publishes carbon data
Bonterra Organic Vineyards announced November 17 that it has achieved Climate Neutral certification for its entire business, and publicly published i... more »
$100M invested in fund focussed on turning farmland organic
Farmland LP, a farmland manager focused on converting conventional farmland to organic in the U.S., recently announced that its second fund, Vital Far... more »
Value of integrated pest management shown in Purdue study of corn, watermelon
Many farmers rent bee hives to pollinate crops, but they could tap into the free labor of wild bees by adopting an as-needed approach to pesticides, a... more »
