The Avalon Organic Gardens, Farm, and Ranch Report

OK, we're witnessing the highest rice prices ever, semi-trucks are paying 1000 dollars a tank to fill up, the government is subsidizing the massive corn agribusinesses to grow GMO corn to sneak into every little food item they can and create biofuel to monopolize that emerging market, the disaster response ...

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    The bees are increasing their forces with us out here.  Our bee team has been busy collecting the annual spring swarms out and about, as one after another call comes in.  With their population declining rapidly all over the world the true value and real cost of their golden ...

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The Issue of Food Security in an Increasingly Greed-Controlled World Market. There I was harvesting beets with our WWOOFER Lynda and another community member, Ah'Nuit. We have so much to eat in the category of "greens" that we pulled the tops and gave them to the rabbits. A lot ...

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Now it is April, the month of blossoms and greening.  The great row of Cottonwoods along the Santa Cruz River on the West edge of the ranch are a vibrant green, along with the garden nemesis, bermuda grass.  As the weeding begins again, the question inevitably arises: is it possible ...

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Farm Report From Avalon Organic Gardens, Farm, and Ranch in Tumacacori, Arizona. 2/08 February witnessed the preparation and anticipation of spring. In this climate spring sneaks in fast out of winter, and is gone into the blazing summer without waiting for anyone to catch up. We are getting our seedlings going ...

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Writing from Avalon Organic Gardens, Farm, and Ranch in Tumacacori, Arizona, winter is the time for introspection, a time for settling in and processing the past year, to prepare for the spring. The New Year brings opportunity for growth, sowing new seeds, trying fresh experiments.  Here in ...

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According to an Associate Press article by Joann Loviglio, there is a new breed of farmers cropping up—more and more college graduates are taking to the fields "Agriculture has been so subsidized, corporatized and globalized," said Tom Murtha who studied English at Penn State. "There's definitely an interest and desire ...

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The Associated Press recently reported Grass that was genetically engineered for golf courses is growing in the wild. Creeping bentgrass was engineered to resist the popular herbicide Roundup to allow more efficient weed control on golf courses. But the modified grass could spread that resistance to the wild, becoming a ...

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The Earth Policy Institute reports that the massive diversion of U.S. grain from food to fuel for cars is raising world food prices. The article notes that corn prices have doubled over the last year, wheat futures are trading at their highest level in 10 years, and rice prices are ...

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An online German publication, Spiegel online, recently questioned a possible connection between the mysterious decimation of bee populations in the U.S. and Germany and the spread of genetically-modified (GM) crops. In some cases, bee populations are down 70-80 percent. The article noted that politicians in ...

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