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Living Well Without a Job and With (Almost) No Money

Looking to bypass the money economy? By adopting “possum living,” it is possible to get the good things in life without having to go to a boring, meaningless, frustrating job to get the money to buy them. Why “possum livi...
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The Colonial Farmer

Ed Schultz reaches down, as the hot sun blazes down on him, to inspect under each leaf in a patch of tobacco plants. He’s looking for tobacco worms, a pest that can quickly decimate a tobacco crop. Plant after plant, row afte...
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Farmers, Seedsmen, Advocates Turn the Tables on Monsanto and Sue

Speaking with Maine farmer Jim Gerritsen recently, just a few days before he was to appear in court, I was struck by how much this likable gentleman–proprietor, with wife Megan, of Wood Prairie Farm in Bridgewater, sounded mo...
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Organic farmers get their day in court against Monsanto

A lawsuit against Monsanto filed on behalf of organic farmers and independent seed businesses went before a judge Tuesday in the Southern District Court in Manhattan, as Monsanto sought to dismiss the case.
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Modified Crops Tap a Wellspring of Protest

A rally in Foley Square in Manhattan in support of a suit by farmers who say they cannot keep genetically modified crops from their fields.
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