gardenorganic.org.uk - 6/15/2009
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News & Events Charity's mission to get the nation growing reaches Buckingham Palace Mission to get people growing reaches Buckingham Palace Organic feast for fathers Bumblebees need gardeners' help Garden Organic at the Children's Food Festival - 27th June Garden Organic at the Royal Show - 7th ...
livablefutureblog.com - 6/16/2009
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Now is the time to grow organic. According
to a new report released by the USDA, the...
demand for organically produced food continues to outpace supply. Organic food sales have increased more than five-fold since the late 1990s, while organic ...
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Demand for Organic Food Continues to Outgrow Supply | ...
supereco.com - 6/19/2009
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Remember when "they" said that organic food was
a specialty market that would never expand past the...
folks with plenty of disposable income? "They" can eat their (organic) words: a new report from the USDA shows that the American appetite for organic food continues to outstrip supply. Organic ...
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Demand for organics reaches all demographics
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Queen Elizabeth Grows a Royal Vegetable Garden
TreeHugger —
In fact there seem to be a whole bunch of regally themed vegetables. In association with Garden Organic , heritage seeds are being grown. There is a round bed made up of concentric circles that includes the tomato varieties Golden Queen, Queen of Hearts and White Queen, lettuce Northern Queen and dwarf French bean Royal Red. The vegetables will be served to the Royal family for dinner, with the first crop of strawberries already in. Her majesty's garden will be organic, with liquid seaweed used instead of chemical fetilizers and garlic to keep away the aphids (does that really ...
Queen will "eat the view" from new Buckingham Palace garden
Kitchen Gardeners International —
... Today, there are no turnips. Instead, a charitable organisation, Garden Organic, has donated six suitably named rare varieties from its Heritage Seed Library to be nurtured on the allotment. Thus climbing French bean Blue Queen and dwarf French bean Royal Red are already planted and to follow will be Northern Queen lettuce, and Golden Queen, Queen of Hearts and White Queen tomatoes. Surrounded by sage, other crops already in situ include Beefsteak and Sun Baby tomatoes, runner beans, Stuttgarter onions, Musselburgh leeks, Fly Away carrots, Red Ace beetroot, broad beans, chard and ...
The Friday Debate: Gardeners shop, the planet drops
The Guardian | Environment —
... When news broke this week that our leading organic gardening charity is in "detailed discussions" with a major garden centre, I was transformed from a sometimes critical friend of Garden Organic, to a furious one. ...
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