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The National Heirloom Exposition: A Gardening Event for the Ages

Mother Earth News Organic Gardening Blog post about 2013 Heirloom Expo!

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Do GMO Crops Really Have Higher Yields?

Tom Philpott piece in Mother Jones

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Nearly Half of All US Farms Now Have Superweeds

Tom Philpott piece in Mother Jones

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Nevada County organic farmer saves heirloom trees for food and history

Laura Brown piece in The Union

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Are Walmart and Big Food pushing for GMO labeling?

Tom Laskawy piece in Grist

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Genetically Monetized Food

If the food movement really wants to improve the food supply, it needs to follow the money (patent law), argues Frederick Kaufman in Slate

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Will Monsanto destroy Mexico’s corn?

Introducing GE corn to Mexico would sound the death knell for the country’s precious ecology, argues author

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2012 Heirloom Expo – Largest Tomato Contest winners

See the results of the Largest Tomato Contest

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SF Gate article on Axel Kratel

Cultivator an apple fan to the core

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2012 School Garden Display winners

School Exhibit Winners The school garden exhibits were again quite well done and showed ingenuity, hard work, and dedication by students, parents, and staff. Due to the large number and the excellent quality of the exhibits, more than one winner was chosen in some cases. There were two first place winners: The Woodland Star garden [...]

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