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Meet the owner committed to a grocery store with a lofty vision Terry Brett spent a recent fall Friday driving five hours to help a young organic farmer with her ambitious plan to save her family...

https://www.cornucopia.org/2024/01/can-shopping-for-food-save-our-future/

The Winter 2023 Cultivator, Cornucopia’s quarterly print newsletter, is arriving in mailboxes across the country. Featuring independent journalism and stories you won’t read anywhere else, th...

https://www.cornucopia.org/2024/01/the-cultivator-winter-2023/

VIROQUA, Wis., Nov. 21, 2023/PRNewswire/ — The packaging on organic food typically conjures feelings of local charm and homegrown goodness. But in an increasingly consolidated marketplace, majo...

https://www.cornucopia.org/2023/12/new-tool-helps-eaters-avoid-mega-companies-when-stocking-their-pantry/

The Cornucopia Institute is investigating recent, disturbing allegations of animal abuse at an industrial organic dairy in Texas. Lone Star Organic Dairy supplies “organic” milk to the brand ...

https://www.cornucopia.org/2023/11/allegations-animal-abuse-horizon-dairy/

Did you miss the recent National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) meeting in Providence, Rhode Island? Here’s your chance to catch up! The NOSB is a federal advisory committee that makes recommen...

https://www.cornucopia.org/2023/11/national-organic-standards-board-fall-meeting-recap/

An excerpt from Grocery Story by Jon Steinman I remember standing in a tomato field of DiMare Fresh, one of North America’s largest conventional growers and distributors of “fresh” tomatoes...

https://www.cornucopia.org/2023/10/time-for-a-supermarket-shakedown/

Join The Cornucopia Institute as we keep you informed via web updates from the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) meeting online. We will be sharing the play by play of the meeting on Octobe...

https://www.cornucopia.org/2023/10/follow-cornucopias-fall-2023-nosb-coverage/

The Fall 2023 Cultivator, Cornucopia’s quarterly print newsletter, is arriving in mailboxes across the country. Featuring independent journalism and stories you won’t read anywhere else, the�...

https://www.cornucopia.org/2023/10/the-cultivator-fall-2023/

“Hydroponics and aeroponics cannot be classified as certified organic growing methods.” Issued by a coalition of six certifiers, this public statement is an unprecedented rebuke to the Nation...

https://www.cornucopia.org/2023/10/hydroponics-is-the-wrong-direction-for-organic/

The Cornucopia Institute recently sat down with Dr. Charles Benbrook to discuss pesticides. He has spent 50 years researching their impacts on our health and the environment and advocating for ch...

https://www.cornucopia.org/2023/09/building-bridges-to-uncover-the-risk-of-pesticides/