Charter school focuses on
agriculture (cover story)

In the fall they are involved with many crops - harvesting, canning, dehydrating, freezing, drying and shelling beans. They harvest pumpkins, make pie filling and dry out pumpkin seeds for eating. They also make salsa from Roma tomatoes.

Wisconsin grower uses onion
know-how to raise beets in beds

Steve Krentz is putting a little bit of onion know-how to work in growing red table beets, and he’s finding that know-how is working.

Study claims public health
harmed by new food regulations
A Harvard University analysis of new federal food safety regulations shows that unintended impacts of the rules could be more harmful to public health than the compounds they attempt to regulate.

Farm workers positive about their jobs,
but suggest improvements
A 1995 study reveals farm workers are generally content with their jobs.

Organic mulch reduces pesticide runoff

Growing vegetables with an organic mulch, hairy vetch - a legume - instead of plastic mulch, reduced pesticide losses by as much as 90% in experiments in Maryland. The vetch also greatly reduced water runoff and sediment losses.