Posts by EcoFarm
Call Your Senator! Ag Bill Keeps Crop Subsidies While Killing Programs for Sustainable Agriculture
Yesterday afternoon, the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee adopted a government funding bill that if passed would turn back decades of progress to achieve a more sustainable and just food and farming system. This 2012 bill makes a second round of steep cuts to conservation, extension, research, renewable energy, and rural development programs. And just like in [...]
EcoFarm Attendees’ Response to USDA Decision to Allow GMO Alfalfa
Every year, the Ecology Center’s Berkeley Farmers’ Market staff attends the EcoFarm Conference, the largest organic farming conference on the West Coast. The following press release was drafted during this year’s conference, when news of the USDA’s approval of GMO alfalfa was announced.
