All Journal Updates
2022 Weekly Journal Letters
07-17-2022: A Soil and Health Discussion – David Montgomery Transcript
07-03-2022: Mycorrhizae Relationships – “It's Not Sex (But It's Sexy)”
06-26-2022: Organic's Law Of Return
06-05-2022: A Simple Lie or a Complex Truth
05-29-2022: What Your Food Ate
05-22-2022: The Farmers' Stand
05-08-2022: Dear NOSB: Dave's NOSB Reflection
05-01-2022: Sustainable Agriculture Continuum: A National Organic Standards Board Spring Meeting Reflection & Testimony
04-24-2022: Paul Hawken Regeneration
04-17-2022: Climate Smart Agriculture is Organic Farming
04-10-2022: King Grove Farm and Fairy Godmothers
04-03-2022: A Milk And Money Victory with Kevin Engelbert
03-28-2022: Remembering Samuel Kaymen
03-13-2022: Remembering Michael Phillips
02-27-2022: Losing Organic Meaning with Michael Pollan
02-20-2022: Disappearing Barn Lights with Helen Kees
01-09-2022: Farmer Activists: We don't farm in a vacuum
2021
12-06-2021: Farewell Senator Leahy
11-22-2021: The most complex, radical technologies on earth
11-14-2021: The Great Organic Food Fraud: Some Surprises
11-07-2021: Real Change: The Political Ecology Of Food
10-31-2021: Taste This: Lessons From Stone Barns
10-16-2021: Why Doesn't the USDA Support Farm To Fork?
10-09-2021: Glorious Grasses: Diversified Pasture Management
09-27-2021: We Need A Movement – Calls To Action
09-20-2021: Danone To The Rescue?
09-12-2021: CAFOs In The Desert
09-05-2021: Which Kind Of Green Is Danone Interested In?
09-01-2021: Danone Abandons Organic Farmers
08-10-2021: Wisdom of the Mother Tree
08-03-2021: Everything Is Connected
07-27-2021: Without Transparency There Is No Integrity
07-20-2021: Talking About A Green Revolution
07-13-2021: Redefining Farming – New York Times Article Response
07-06-2021: Leah & Joan Podcast Highlights
06-20-2021: Attention
06-13-2021: Should Organic Be One Brand?
06-06-2021: Two Wolves And A Lamb Vote On Lunch
06-03-2021: Secretary Vilsack Responds
05-23-2021: Vilsack Meets With Organic Farmers
05-16-2021: Asking For Permission
05-11-2021: We Must Be Smarter
04-25-2021: A “Crazy Good” Organic Berry
04-23-2021: Francis Thicke's NOSB Farewell
04-17-2021: Why Real Organic Matters Video Release
04-12-2021: Grain By Grain
04-05-2021: A Farmer-Led Label
03-29-2021: We Fought the Law and the Law Won
03-22-2021: Jon Tester at the OFA Annual Meeting
03-15-2021: Stronger Together
02-23-2021: Who Owns Organic?
01-25-2021: Nourishment
01-05-2021: What Is Soil Health?
12-28-2021: The Third Path
11-11-2021: We Won the Debate. Now We're In A Fight.
11-02-2021: Doesn't Everyone Deserve Organic?
2020
10-05-2020: Real Organic Label Is Sweeping The Nation
07-13-2020: Paul Hawken Letter To The Editor
07-06-2020: Organic Grain Fraud
06-29-2020: Can Real Organic Scale?
06-22-2020: Farm Labor at Swanton Berry Farm
06-10-2020: Black Lives Matter
05-26-2020: Which Came First- The Organic Chicken Or The Organic CAFO?
05-10-2020: Whose Government Is It?
05-03-2020: What Do A Rancher And A Vegan Have In Common?
04-26-2020: Dear USDA, What Will It Take?
04-19-2020: How Long Could Your Community Feed Itself?
04-12-2020: What Food Do We Want?
04-05-2020: Dear NOSB
03-31-2020: Is It The Best Of Markets Or The Worst Of Markets?
03-25-2020: Stories From The Front Lines
03-18-2020: Strange Days: Symposium Postponed
03-09-2020: Paul Hawken Keynote and Podcast
03-02-2020: Dear Regenerative Movement: Meet The Organic Movement
02-26-2020: CCOF Board Meeting Takes on Hydroponics
02-16-2020: California Protecting Organic
02-09-2020: California Rising
02-02-2020: Hydroponic Tour In California
01-26-2020: Real Organic Farmers In California with Jim Durst
01-19-2020: Real Organic In California with Paul Muller
01-12-2020: Can Real Organic Farming Reduce Climate Change And Enhance Biodiversity? with Jean-Paul Stewart-Courtens
01-05-2020: My Agricultural Grandparents By Eliot Coleman
2019
12-29-2019: The Return Of The Light
12-08-2019: Pete's Greens And Dartmouth Symposium
12-01-2019: Legend Organic And NOSB Testimony
11-24-2019: Cheap Food High Costs
11-17-2019: Organic AND Pastured Eggs
11-17-2019: Organic AND Pastured Eggs
11-10-2019: May The Fork Be With You
11-03-2019: 5th Generation Dairy In Crisis
10-27-2019: Of The People, By The People, For The People
10-20-2019: Earth in Human Hands
10-13-2019: Agricultural Efficiencies
10-06-2019: I Choose Farming
09-29-2019: Vermont Farmers Speak Out
09-15-2019: The Silence of Our Friends
09-08-2019: The Next Generation Speaks Out
08-18-2019: Real Organic Project Debates OTA (Organic Trade Association)
07-14-2019: Farmers And “Organic Experts”
07-07-2019: Do We Dare Speak Out?
06-09-2019: The USDA Gives In
06-04-2019: Instant Organic Continues To Be Allowed. Just Add Water.
04-07-2019: USDA Organic Now Allows Herbicides
03-28-2019: The Truth About Real Organic Food In The Supply Chain
03-22-2019: To Enid With Gratitude
03-10-2019: The Organic Community Gathered At Dartmouth
02-12-2019: Dear Sonny Perdue: Do Better!
02-06-2019: EcoFarm 2019: As The Community Gathers, Resilience Is Fertile
2018
11-11-2018: Greener Pastures: Can We Save Organic?
05-15-2018: Real Organic Project Pilot Program
03-07-2018: Real Organic Project Add On Label
02-16-2018: The Real Organic Project is Born
01-03-2018: The Night They Drove Organic Down