The Avalon Organic Gardens, Farm, and Ranch Report

Can you believe it’s Spring! We have emerged from a mild winter here in Southern Arizona. With the renewal of life, of energies, of the complex relationships between insects, microbes, plants, animals, and people, we have an opportunity to give thanks for all that occurred since this day of last ...

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 Week 1 - 6/19/08 Japanese Daikon, Rainbow Swiss Chard, Spanish Bunching Onion and Shallot style Onions, Avalon Garlic, Golden Acre and Danish Ballhead Cabbage, Southern Georgia, Morris Head, and Vates Collards, Genovese Sweet, Lemon, and Cinnamon Basil, Mexican Oregano, Mountain Rosemary, Nantes Carrots, Champion and Easter Egg Radish. Week 2 - 6/26/08 Japanese ...

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We’ve got the garlic in! That feels great. Takes a group effort to plant half an acre by hand. The early hard frost (24 F in the Lower Garden) in mid October knocked out our Basil, Eggplant, Peppers, Tomatoes, Okra, Cucumbers, and Summer Squash, altering ...

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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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Organic Consumers Associataion "Breaking the Chains Campaign"

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