Two thirds of UK consumers deliberately choose organic. Abel & Cole is making a killing out of this passion for “pure”.

This a look at the whole debate concerning poor food choices. Some say a lot of people are too poor to be able to choose organic & healthy options and others say it isn't economics but education & the desire to cook from scratch. This blog has some interesting points to consider.

A nice site selling good organic stuff (especially the candy)

Whole Foods says it wants to eliminate disposable plastic grocery bags at all its stores by Earth Day, April 22. To kick things off, today the organic grocer is giving away thousands of reusable bags at checkouts.

Yes it can.

Paul K. Keene (1910-2005) was one of the first organic farmers. He was the owner of Walnut Acres, in Penns Creek, Pennsylvania. There he produced various food products sold nationally in health food stores and via a mail-order catalog. The foods included chicken, peanut, apple and other butters, and granola. He was one of the pioneers of the idea of growing food without pesticides or chemical fertilizers.Before starting Walnut Acres, he taught mathematics at Drew University. He learned about organic farming from Sir Albert Howard, while teaching in northern India. When he returned to the US, he studied further at the School of Living, in Suffern, New York and Kimberton Farm School in Pennsylvania.While in India, he was also involved with Mohandas Gandhi and the Indian independence movement.He also met his wife while in India. Her name was Enid Betty Morgan. They were married in 1940.His first big breakthrough in selling organic foods came when Clementine Paddleford, the New York Herald-Tribune food editor, was entranced by the farm's first product, Apple Essence, an apple butter.Walnut Acres was started just after World War II. In 1994, it had sales of close to $8 million dollars annually.