Organic Plot

WASHINGTON -- When Sarah Smith's Grassland Organic Farm in Skowhegan needed help to create pastures where cows could graze even in a summer drought, a U.S. Department of Agriculture program chipped...

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture seized a truck full of food products belonging to organic farmer Alvin Schlangen while he was making a delivery to the Veggie Co-Op on Wednesday, Mar. 9, bringing...

The Santa Cruz, CA- based Organic Farming Research Foundation is bringing five organic farmers from Georgia, Maine, New York, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin to share their experiences at the Organic Trade...

In a daring and ambitious initiative, Manohar Parchure, a leading promoter of organic farming, his supporters and some NGOs have initiated an effort to start ten 'producer companies' of farmers, which...

SKOWHEGAN — Sarah Smith of Grassland Farm likes to talk about organic foods and the $36.6 million in sales it generates annually in Maine.

Todd Ulizio and Rebecca Avrett-Ulizio can be sure of one thing as they enter their fourth season of certified organic vegetable production – farming is hard work. Extreme temperatures, harvest deadlines...

Independent farmers on the Mediterranean island of Majorca are bypassing distributors and selling their organic produce directly to customers over the Internet.

As you probably know if you read this blog regularly, we know some organic farmers and we do our best to help them thrive. But times are tough, especially for people selling products that are more expensive...