WASHINGTON, April 12, 2017 - Can hydroponics – fruit and vegetable growing systems that don’t use soil – be certified as organic farming? The Agriculture Department’s answer is likely coming soon.

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Organic fertilizer ingredients are less expensive when bought in bulk. The basic organic fertilizer ingredients are seed meal, agricultural lime, gypsum, dolomitic lime (or dolomite), kelp meal and ...

How does a Vermonter, midwinter, find a ripe, organic tomato? It's a trick question on several counts. The quest for an answer begins at a grocery store. Dismiss, for a moment, the issue of localvore ...