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  India Shows the Way in Organic Farming
  The concept of Organic farming can be traced to the Vedic period in India. Since time immemorial, in this land as old as the civilization itself, the essence has been to live in partnership with, rather than exploit, nature.
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  In Defense of Food: How Processed Fare Affects Us
  For a great example of how our modern food supply got into such a mess, look no further than the history of bread. Back in the late 19th century mechanized roller-milling replaced the older, slower system of grinding grains between big stone wheels - a giant leap forward for food processing, and a step backward for human nutrition.
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  Australian ISKCON Farm Goes Officially Organic
  This week the ISKCON New Govardhana farming project in Australia received organic certification from the national Organic Growers Association. After several rigorous inspections, the farm was granted a certificate of compliance which allows all fruit and vegetables grown to carry the official OGA logo.
• Are Organic Tomatoes Better?

  A farming experiment at the University of California, Davis, has found that organically grown tomatoes are richer in certain kinds of flavonoids than conventionally grown tomatoes. And one researcher is curious to determine why this may be.

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  An Urban Farmer Is Rewarded for His Dream

  WILL ALLEN already had the makings of an agricultural dream packed into two scruffy acres in one of Milwaukee’s most economically distressed neighborhoods. His Growing Power organization has six greenhouses and eight hoophouses for greens, herbs and vegetables. There’s an advanced composting operation — a virtual worm farm — and a lab that is working on ways to turn food waste into fertilizer and methane gas for energy.

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  New Govardhana Farm Supplies Deities With Own Vegetables
  Despite difficulties earlier this year, ISKCON’s certified organic farm in Australia, New Govardhana, is now able to supply its Radha Krishna deities with all the vegetables needed for their offerings.
• It’s Organic, but Does That Mean It’s Safer?

  MOST of the chicken, fruit and vegetables in Ellen Devlin-Sample’s kitchen are organic. She thinks those foods taste better than their conventional counterparts. And she hopes they are healthier for her children. Lately, though, she is not so sure.

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  Michelle Obama's Organic Garden Angers US Farming Companies
  Mrs Obama started work on the kitchen garden with a gang of schoolchildren last month. Media coverage of the first White House food plot since Eleanor Roosevelt "dug for victory" in the Second World War garnered media coverage across the world. But to the consernation of Big Ag, Mrs Obama has said the project will not use chemical products to tackle pests or give her plants a boost, the Times reports.
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  Organic, Small Farmers Fret Over FDA Regulation
  Small farmers in California who have led a national movement away from industrial agriculture face a looming crackdown on food safety that they say is geared to big corporate farms and will make it harder for them to survive.
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  Organic Produce Superior To Conventional On Every Level, Study Finds

  Mainstream nutritionists often claim that conventional produce is no different than organic produce. But a new study proves otherwise, revealing that organic fruits and vegetables pack a greater nutritional punch and produce better, healthier soil than their conventional counterparts.

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  Wild Food: Foraging Ahead Into the 21st Century
  It turns out urban, suburban and rural ecosystems are loaded with unnoticed wild foods and herbs. Overlooked as "weeds," these are the same shoots, greens, roots, fruits, berries and flowers that nourished and healed our ancestors for centuries.
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  Community Supported Agriculture at ISKCON`s Gita Nagari Farm
  Over the last 20 years, Community Supported Agriculture has become a popular way for Americans to buy local, seasonal food directly from a farmer.
• From Poop To Power: Manure, Life and the Bio-fuel Miracle of the Cow
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  ISKCON`s Global Village Initiative Committee Meets In Mumbai
  ISKCON`s Global Village Initiative Committee (GVIC) met for the second time after it's inception last year. The committee was fored under the ausipices of GBC as part of strategic planning initiative.
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  New Vrindaban Organic Gardening Inspires Local Sustainability

  A New Vrindaban devotee’s efforts at organic gardening have inspired the general public, educational institutions, and leaders in the local town of Wheeling, West Virginia to support sustainability, eat local produce and consider spiritual motives for it.

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  Radhanath Swami Inaugurates Maharastra Eco-village
  The Govardhan Eco-village has been built for the modern lifestyle needs of both individuals and corporate groups. It hopes to serve as a model of how spirituality can integrate the needs of a modern society with traditional answers.
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  D.C. Gardener Encourages City Temples to Go Green
  As environmentally-friendly living becomes more and more of a concern in a modern society where Earth’s resources are fast running out, ISKCON has an increasing responsibility to set a good example.
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  Children’s Picnic At Govardhan Eco-Village, Wada, India
  The Gopal’s Fun School serves as an introduction to Krishna-consciousness for the children in various local areas in Mumbai and Thane. In order to give the children a glimpse into Vedic lifestyle and culture, they were taken to GEV which is a farm community spread over a scenic landscape of 60 acres at Wada near Mumbai, India.
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  France Plans on Doubling Organic Farmland Area by 2017

  France is the European Union's biggest agricultural producer and has lately seen rapid growth of organic framing.

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  India Creates Organic Seed Bank In Response to GMO Suicide Seeds

  In India there are a group of organic seed-collecting activists who have decided to take Monsanto down – by beating them at their own game.

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  More Helpful Fatty Acids Found in Organic Milk

  Whole milk from organic dairies contains far more of some of the fatty acids that contribute to a healthy heart than conventional milk, scientists are reporting.

• The Natural Effect

  "The False Advertising Industry" reveals the shocking truth about what is allowed in "Natural" food. Only the USDA Organic Seal guarantees your food contains no Genetically Modified Organisms, no toxic pesticides, and no growth hormones or antibiotics.

• Sustainable Organic Agriculture in the Desert

  A short video about how to develop an abundant organic farm even under the most extreme circumstances.

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  Organic Food Contains Up to 60% More Antioxidants: Study

  Eating organic is like eating two extra portions of fruit, vegetables daily.

• "Simple Living High Thinking": Beekeeping for Beginners

  A video by "The Vedic Way." 3D model download: http://www.thevedicway.org/beekeeping/

• "Simple Living High Thinking": The Perfect Soil

  Take a close look at these two plants, we took the seeds from the same fruit and we put them in pots six months ago. What is the main difference that makes it so dramatic? A video by The Vedic Way.

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  India Has Its First Fully Organic State

  As of late last month, the farms of Sikkim in northwest India have been certified 100 percent free of synthetic fertilizer and pesticides, making it the country's first fully organic state.

• Natural Living: How to Plant a Bamboo

  A video by the "Vedic Way".

• Grow 53 Plants with a Garden Tower Vertical Container Garden

  John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ sets up the Garden Tower Vertical Container Garden that allows you to grow 50+ plants in just 4 square feet of space.

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  Members of Krishna Farm Boom in Canada Meet to Collaborate

  With a sudden boom of new Krishna conscious farm projects in Central Canada, their leaders gathered to discuss how they could collaborate with each other at the first ever Central Canada Farm Conference on December 17^th. Canadian GBC Bhaktimarga Swami and farmer Sukhayanti Dasi brought together twenty-six devotees from seven agrarian projects across Southern Ontario and Quebec for the conference, which took place at the King Edward Park Community Centre in Brighton, Ontario.