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Oregon Floral Farms Continues to Grow Organically in More Ways than One
OREGON CITY, Ore. -- This year, Oregon Floral Farms celebrates its tenth year of supplying custom and creatively hand-tied organic floral bouquets to customers...
Obama Family Vegetable Garden at the White House Recreated with Plangarden Software
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. -- Just after First Lady, Michelle Obama, broke ground for the White House vegetable garden, Plangarden released an online interactive...
Trees With Meaning Gains USDA Approval for First U.S. Release of Olive Trees from Israel
SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- With a hard-earned U.S. Department of Agriculture signoff now in hand, Trees With Meaning Inc. (TreesWithMeaning.com) becomes one of the...
The Flax Council of Canada Announces GRAS Status Determined for Flax in U.S.
WINNIPEG, Canada -- The Flax Council of Canada announced that a panel of experts determined in January 2009 that whole and milled flax seed...
Bokashicycle Delivers More Effective Alternative to Traditional Composting
SEATTLE, Wash. -- To many, the idea of composting sounds like a positive environmental behavior, but according to Dr. Lawrence Green, M.D., Ph.D. and...
JatrophaBioJet Corp Will Develop the Jatropha and Advanced Biofuels Market for Aerospace Applications
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- JatrophaBioJet Corporation (jatrophabiojet.com) will develop the Jatropha/advanced biofuels market for jet, turbine and aerospace applications. JatrophaBioJet provides a cooperative single...
Biotronics, Inc., Announces Future Pork Grading Rivaling Beef, Ultrasound Technology Seen as a Major Advance in Grading
AMES, Iowa -- Biotronics, Inc., a food animal ultrasound research and development company recently received a $150,000 Demonstration Grant from the Iowa Department of...
National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council Hosts Public Forum on Tropical Forestry
RIO GRANDE, P.R. -- The National Urban & Community Forestry Advisory Council (NUCFAC) hosted a groundbreaking public forum in Puerto Rico on June 18,...
Plangarden Veggie Garden Software Adds Social Networking
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. -- Plangarden enhances its drag-and-drop online vegetable gardening software by expanding features for its rapidly growing community of vegetable gardeners. The new Web 2.0 social networking features enable vegetable garden enthusiasts from all over the world to interact over a "virtual backyard fence" where they can ask or swap advice.
Biodiesel Venture with Mindanao Tribes to Bolster Communities
DUMAGUETE CITY, Philippines, and MONTEREY, Calif. -- The Supreme Council of Datus Alimaong has reached agreement with Monterey, CA-based Abundant Biofuels Corporation to develop more than 1.2 million acres of ancestral domain for production of biodiesel from Jatropha curcas in underused Lumad lands on the island of Mindanao.
