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Every day, millions of Americans drive to the grocery store to purchase fruits and vegetables, rarely thinking where the produce came from or what they would do if it’s no longer available. That nightmare scenario, though, could happen far sooner ...

Ever wonder which fruits and vegetables you should only buy organic or simply grow? If so, the Environmental Working Group’s newest Shopper’s Guide can help. For over a decade, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) has published an annual guide on ...

Monsanto and other biotech giants reportedly are attempting to thwart the natural order by patenting conventional fruit and vegetable plants derived from conventional breeding in Europe. Loopholes in the European patent laws may allow for Monsanto, Syngenta and other biotech ...

For many years I’ve been a big fan of raised-bed gardening. It wasn’t until recently that I began to grow some of my food directly in the ground without raised beds. Now, I use a mixture of both methods. My ...

My first attempt at gardening wasn’t cheap. In fact, it was pretty expensive. I was allured by all the bright and shiny gardening gadgets, potions, seeds and such at our local gardening store. I was sure I had to have ...

It’s almost the end of the month and payday is just around the corner. You’ve done pretty well all month with feeding your family healthy, non-GMO foods you feel good about. But you’re in the final stretch. The cupboards are ...

Like people, plants just naturally get along better with a small circle of friends, but they don’t always get along with the entire garden. That’s why before you plant a garden of any kind, you should do some research to ...

Freezing our bountiful harvest is an easy way of preserving our produce; but the foods will not keep as long. In freezing the organisms that cause spoiling become inactive, but don’t die. As long as the produce remains frozen the ...

As we discussed in last week’s article, canning the food we harvest is among the oldest of ways to preserve our fruits, vegetables, and other foods so that our families can be fed during the long cold winters and right ...

Canning the food we harvest is among the oldest of ways to preserve our fruits, vegetables, and other foods so that our families can be fed during the long cold winters and right through the spring to the next year’s ...