Agriculture

Concerned About Unfriendly GMO’s? Try Friendly Aquaponics!

June Stoyer 6 Comments Agriculture, Clean Energy View, Environment, Featured Guests, Featured Guests, Gardening, GMO, Sustainability

When you consider the fact that the USA produces some of the best organic food in the world, it makes absolutely no sense that we continue to import these foods during peak season. As the demand increases for locally grown organic foods, more people are constructing aquaponics models of all sizes to grow their own food. It is not only healthier and more economic but enables people to stop contributing to the monoculture environments that industrial agriculture thrives in which has been producing nothing more than low quality, chemical laden foods.

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Michael Potter, CEO, Eden Foods: GMO’s and Organic Sustainability

June Stoyer 4 Comments Agriculture, Environment, Fair Trade Friends, Featured Guests, Featured Guests, GMO, Organic Producers, Sustainability

Sustainability is often a word that is used by clever marketers to promote an agenda to address the propaganda that the overpopulated world is running out of food due. With conventional crops devastating the environment, it appears that all we are doing is mining the land instead of farming it sustainably. In essence, in order to be truly sustainable, agriculture must be perpetuated so it can be productive year after year and generation after generation. The privately stated policy from the agro-chemical companies is market domination through contamination, meanwhile it is translated for the public as peaceful co-existence, when in fact there is no peaceful co-existence. Is it possible for the organic producers to survive?

Eden Foods, Inc., (also known as Eden Organic), is the oldest family owned organic food producer in the United States and the largest supplier of organic dry grocery items. Michael Potter, CEO of Eden Foods will talk about organic sustainability and the impact of GMO’s on our food and the broader environment.

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It’s Thanksgiving! Why Do You Need To Thank A Beekeeper?

June Stoyer 7 Comments Agriculture, Bees, Environment, Featured Guests, Featured Guests, Gardening, GMO

While most people typically give thanks for their friends, family, healthy and good fortune, not many really think about the importance of the honeybee in this celebration. Without the honeybee, Thanksgiving would not be the feast that it is. In this special holiday segment of The Organic View Radio Show, host, June Stoyer will be joined by special guest host, Marina Marchese and Kim Flotum, editor of Bee Culture Magazine. Click here to listen to the show! Stay tuned!

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