Agriculture

Avoid the Frankenfoods

August 1, 2009 by Derek Markham
Last updated on: June 3, 2015

One of the biggest controversies surrounding food in recent years is the entry of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) into our food system. If you don’t know about GMOs by now, here’s the concept in a nutshell: Genetically modified foods have… [read]

A FrankenFood Bedtime Story

August 1, 2009 by Doc
Last updated on: March 15, 2018

Well, it’s getting to be that time of day (night 🙂 when I get to feeling I’ve had enough fun for one day and should be heading towards the ole sack, but I thought I’d leave y’all with this little… [read]

Monsanto Company Profile Part I of IV

August 1, 2009 by Michael Edwards
Last updated on: July 27, 2015

If ever there was a company that stands for everything Organic Lifestyle Magazine stands against, it’s Monsanto. To us they are the villain, a company that embodies virtually everything we at OLM believe to be wrong with big business today.… [read]

My Journey into Organic Farming

February 1, 2009 by Brian Bueckert
Last updated on: June 3, 2015

As a brand new farmer, I farmed conventionally for two years and broke even both years on one quarter section. Not so good. No profit. Farming has to make money or there is no point in doing it, right? I… [read]

Eggs – Free Range, Cage Free, Organic, What’s the difference?

February 1, 2009 by Stephanie Dickison
Last updated on: June 3, 2015

According to Everyday Food, eggs are one of the earliest known food sources, and yet the question of whether the chicken or the egg came first continues to perplex and befuddle the masses. Today an even more complicated issue has… [read]

Meet K. Rashid Nuri

December 1, 2008 by Michael Edwards
Last updated on: June 3, 2015

K. Rashid Nuri is a farmer. If this statement conjures an image of a white two-story farmhouse situated at the top of a rise, overlooking acre upon acre of planted fields that have been handed down through six generations, put… [read]

Interview with The Health Ranger Mike Adams

October 1, 2008 by Michael Edwards
Last updated on: June 3, 2015

At age 30, Mike Adams was fifty pounds overweight. He suffered from chronic back pain, depression, high cholesterol, and was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. The son of a Pfizer contractor and a clinical trial tester for some of America’s… [read]