Food Prices and the Walmart Love/Hate
SHARE THE GEORGE!Consumers and the Divide Over Walmart’s Prices Walmart’s Low Prices Compete Against Tried and True Supermarket Chains At a time when food prices are soaring, Walmart has announced it...
View ArticleMeat Minus the Drug Cocktail: Chipotle’s Push for Better Pork
SHARE THE GEORGE!An Argument for Antibiotic Resistance Chipotle’s Locally Grown Initiative The story about the food industry can start to sound the same after a while: under pressure from consumers, a...
View ArticleThe Sterile Life: What We’ve Lost and Gained
SHARE THE GEORGE!Getting in Touch With our Immune Systems The Sterile Life: What We’ve Lost and Gained Before refrigeration, sewer systems, hand sanitizer, indoor living, water treatment and...
View ArticleFarmers, Once the Ogallala’s “Biggest Threat” Now Poised as its Savior
SHARE THE GEORGE!Environmental Risks of the Keystone XL Pipeline How the Keystone XL Pipeline will Affect the Ogallala Aquifer As American farmers chart a course into a hotter, drier future, there’s no...
View ArticleThe Hard Frost is the Grinch for Apple Picking Season
SHARE THE GEORGE!Crop Scarcity Hampers Apple Picking this Year Apple Picking in Upstate New York Many apple orchards in Albany, Rensselaer and Saratoga counties will not have U-Pick your own this...
View ArticleCalifornia’s Battle: Do Consumers Really Need to Know What They Are Eating?
SHARE THE GEORGE!How Proposition 37 in California Could Affect All of Us So, What Are We Eating…Exactly? This November, Proposition 37 will allow California voters to decide if they would like to see...
View ArticleFarmers Assaulted by Converging Effects of Climate Change
SHARE THE GEORGE!How the Tomato-Potato Psyllid Has Affected Agriculture Throughout the World Pests and Climate Change Threaten Crops World Wide There is little doubt that climate change will have and...
View ArticlePrairie Restoration: No Patch of Ground too Small
SHARE THE GEORGE!How Our Ecosystem Depends on the Prairies A Look at the Small-Scale Prairie Movement More each year, we are reminded of the critical importance of species diversity. Nature never puts...
View ArticleGlens Falls Food Co-Op to Host General Meeting on May 13th
SHARE THE GEORGE!Future Plans for the Glens Falls Co-Op to be Discussed at Crandall Library Glens Falls Food Co-Op General Meeting If you’ve heard of the Glens Falls Co-Op, and have been interested but...
View ArticleA Preview of the 2014 Food to Farm Festival in Glens Falls
SHARE THE GEORGE!Organic Alternatives and Good Food in Glens Falls on May 24 Food to Farm Festival Comes to Crandall Park On May 8, 2014, Vermonts Governor Peter Shumlin signed an important bill that...
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