Sunday, December 20, 2009

Compost Powers USDA's Organic People's Garden (Despite Chemical Ag's Concerns)

About the time that Chemical Ag spokespeople were accusation Michelle Obama for announcement civil amoebic aliment with her White House garden, admixture from the Rodale Institute acreage was landing on a new amoebic garden appropriate in foreground of U.S. Department of Agriculture headquarters. Compost is a big allotment of what makes amoebic agriculture plan so well We're blessed to accord a truckload of high-quality admixture to biologically jump-start this acceptable change in the USDA's foreground lawn. The Secretary capital the garden to be certified organic, so all the inputs--including compost--need to accommodate to the National Organic Program standards. Our 60 years of analysis appearance that amoebic agriculture is the individual a lot of cogent and actual footfall we can crop to abbreviate the potentially adverse accoutrement of all-around warming Organic agriculture delivers added ecology services, improves animal bloom and builds biodiversity aloft and below the clay band to aftermath added diet per acre. Building clay amoebic amount saves soil, improves baptize above and is the architecture block for greater comestible density.

Washington, D.C. -- About the time that Chemical Ag spokespeople were accusation Michelle Obama for announcement civil amoebic aliment with her White House garden, admixture from the Rodale Institute acreage was landing on a new amoebic garden appropriate in foreground of U.S. Department of Agriculture headquarters.

Photo credit: Joan Shaffer, USDA

Since he jackhammered an city-limits aisle just off the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in foreground the USDA's Whitten architecture on Lincoln's birthday, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack has taken a claimed absorption in developing the new People's Garden.

Delivering the admixture was Jeff Moyer, acreage administrator for Rodale Institute, Kutztown, PA. "Compost is a big allotment of what makes amoebic agriculture plan so well," he said. "We're blessed to accord a truckload of high-quality admixture to biologically jump-start this acceptable change in the USDA's foreground lawn. The Secretary capital the garden to be certified organic, so all the inputs--including compost--need to accommodate to the National Organic Program standards." Moyer chairs the USDA's National Organic Standards Board, which provides ascribe from the amoebic area to the department's amoebic program.

Organic farming is an chip systems-approach to acceptable agronomics that Moyer and bags of added farmers accept been convalescent for decades. The Institute is the birthplace of the amoebic movement in America, and its advisers accept accurate that amoebic agriculture techniques action the best band-aid to all-around abating and famine.

"Our 60 years of analysis appearance that amoebic agriculture is the individual a lot of cogent and actual footfall we can crop to abbreviate the potentially adverse accoutrement of global warming," said Institute CEO Dr. Timothy LaSalle. "Organic agriculture delivers added ecology services, improves animal bloom and builds biodiversity aloft and below the clay band to aftermath added diet per acre. Building clay amoebic amount saves soil, improves baptize above and is the architecture block for greater comestible density."

Rodale Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that creates all-around solutions from the arena up. We were 1947 by amoebic avant-garde J.I. Rodale.

Regenerative Organic Farming: A Solution to all-around warming
http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/20080425/gw6

Good admixture fabricated better
By Christine Ziegler Ulsh with Paul Hepperly, PhD.
http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/20060413/ulshhepperly

Eds. - Photos accessible online:
http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/compost_pics/

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