An increase in amateur gardeners keen to grow their own food is taking its toll on organic farms and shops that deliver vegetable boxes. Hundreds of health food shops and farms around the country now offer a vegetable box scheme whereby they deliver seasonal produce to their customers each week.Organic producers suffer as green fingered customers go it alone (u.tv)
Ristorante Italiano features local organic produce (Lake County News)SODA BAY – Local restaurateur, Zino Mezoui, formed a friendship through the years with dining patron and local organic farmer, Jim Leonardis. Leonardis now supplies Mezoui with fresh vegetables for the Italian delicacies served nightly at Zino’s Ristorante in Soda Bay.
Organic farmers in Oxfordshire have criticised a report claiming there was no important nutritional difference or extra health benefit in organic food compared to conventionally-grown produce.Organic farmers hit back at food claims (This is Oxfordshire)
The normal ageing process has long been linked to problems with cell respiration, the process through which the cells extract energy from nutrients. Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have now shown how certain proteins that are synthesised in the cellular mitochondria - popularly known as the cells’ power plants - become unstable and disintegrate, which in turn can impair cell respiration and cause premature ageing. organic food boxes
Despite increasing danger posed by “al Qaeda-linked militants,” U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes said Tuesday U.N. aid workers “were not backing away” from the country, Reuters reports. “Intense fighting is making it increasingly difficult to deliver aid in the Horn of Africa country, where U.N. agencies are trying to combat cholera outbreaks and maintain food supplies to 3. organic food boxes
