The Cultivator – Spring 2017

(Before It's News)

The Spring 2016 Cultivator, Cornucopia’s quarterly newsletter, is now available online. Download the PDF here.

In it you’ll find:

• Organic, Rooted in Soil
• Grass-fed Dairy an Expanding Market
• Regenerative Agriculture Improves Soil
• Raising the Bar: Choosing Between Healthy Snacks and Synthetic-fi lled Junk Food
• Community Supported Agriculture: How to Choose a Farm Share
• Unchartered Waters: Will the Trump/Perdue USDA Defend or Kill Organics?
• USDA Taking Comments on Organic Checkoff
• Farmer Profile: Avant-Grain
• New Cornucopia Staff and Board Members

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• Australia State of the Environment report highlights threat of coal mining, urban growth, invasive species, and global warming
• Soils could release much more carbon than expected as climate warms – “By 2100, the warming of deeper soil layers could cause a release of carbon perhaps as high as 30 percent of today’s human-caused annual carbon emissions”
• Photo gallery: Native Americans protest the Dakota Access Pipeline project at the White House
• Vicious circle of drought and forest loss in the Amazon – “Frequent extreme drought events have the potential to destabilize large parts of the Amazon forest”
• Internal Audit Best Practices for Safety, Environment, and Quality Audits
• Links of interest
• Exaggerated Coal-Ash Dangers: Part I
• Credit for reviewing & editing — it’s about bloody time
• Azores Wind-Solar-Battery Storage System to Reduce Environmental Impacts 43 Percent
• Rally in the Valley to Keep the Soil in Organic