A recently released report on pesticide residues found that about 20 percent of organic lettuce tested positive for pesticides. How could that be? We talked with the University of Minnesota's Jeff ...

Aggressively Organic's hydroponic micro-growth chambers can grow more lettuce in a 10-by-10-foot room than can be grown on half an acre of land on a traditional organic farm. They want to make ...

The contest has often split the organic world into multiple camps, sometimes pitting smaller outfits against larger, more corporate entities. "Although the USDA ignored some of the [board ...

Garden Fresh Restaurant Corp, the parent company of Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes, announced an agreement with Encinitas-based Go Green Agriculture Inc that calls for Go Green to supply 100% ...

Multiple forms of romaine lettuce have been the subject of recalls over the past few years. A report in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, published in Sept. 2020, found that leafy greens ...

A few weeks ago, Mother Earth’s intrepid editor-in-chief, Cheryl Long, told me about a study from Kansas State University in which good quality organic lettuce was successfully grown in high ...

NEW LONDON -- Lettuce Abound Farms, which grows a variety of lettuce and other leafy greens year-round in an indoor aeroponic system near New London, has received its organic certification from ...

His research showed sharp differences in the nitrate levels of organic and conventional lettuce. ”The nitrate levels for organic lettuce were 150 mg/kg. Conventional lettuce carried levels of over ...