Organic Gardening and Farming in Fiji

The 8-year-old girls peer through the leaves of basil, green bean and cucumber plants, searching for peppers that still need to be picked. "The droopy one is peppers," third-grader Simran Shankardass calls to her best friend, Jessica DeKoven. If all goes well, the organically grown fare will end up as food for students at the Louisa May Alcott School, where a large vegetable garden just outside the cafeteria is planted, tended and harvested by students. The project is part of a larger movement sweeping the country: From New York to California, schools are getting students out of the classroom and into the garden in a back-to-nature approch to learning and -- perhaps more important -- as a way to introduce them to healthy food Some schools even use the student-grown food to supplement their lunches, although that practice is not widespread. Other programs promote the use of crops grown by local farmers to get healthier food into schools. But "kids actually eat mor...

Welcome to the new and improved website for Abundant Organics - an organic fruit, vegetable and groceries home delivery service based in Sydney delivering to the Sydney suburban area, Central Coast and the Illawarra. We specialise in certified organic fruit and organic vegetables and our completely secure on-line store is open 24/7 to take your order. Abundant Organics

With the organic market growing steadily, you may be interested in learning more about organic certification and organic production options. These resources offer guidance in preparing for certification, and in production methods for a range of organic crops and livestock. Many of these publications were developed in response to producer questions, and they deal with issues related to specific products, as well as production methods, marketing, and organic certification requirements. Organic Publications Overview Organic Regulation, Certification, Transition & History Organic Fruits Organic Vegetables, Flowers and Herbs Organic Field Crops Organic Livestock Organic Control of Pests Organic Soils & Fertilizer Issues Organic Marketing Organic Farming Information from Other Sources Organic Farming: ATTRA - National Susta...

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International Composting Awareness Week (Sunday 3rd to Saturday 9th May 2009) is a week of activities, events and publicity to improve awareness about the importance of this valuable organic resource and to promote compost use, knowledge and products. Approximately 60% of the rubbish Australians put in the everyday mixed-waste ‘garbage bin’ could be put to better use in the garden as compost and mulch or could be returned to agricultural land to improve soil quality. Alarmingly, such a huge amount of organically-active material buried ‘anaerobically’ (without air) in landfill causes over 3% of Australia’s total greenhouse gas emissions annually by producing methane : a gas with 25 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide ! If properly composted instead, this same organic waste could help to abate climate change in yet another way: by sinking or ‘sequestering’ carbon ...