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Rady Ananda reports on the site Info-Wars.org,
 
Early Sunday morning, French police stood helpless as sixty people, locked inside an open-air field of genetically modified grapevines, uprooted all the plants. In Spain last month, dozens of people destroyed two GMO fields. On the millennial cusp, Indian farmers burned Bt cotton in their Cremate Monsanto campaign. Ignored by multinational corporations and corrupt public policy makers, citizens act to protect the food supply and the planet.
 

Who knew it is easier to get permits for a medical marijuana garden in the San Francisco area than it is for an urban farm to grow and sell vegetables? In cities across the country urban zoning laws are being changed to allow people to grow food for a profit as Zusha Elinson reports for The New York Times,
 
Brooke Budner and Caitlyn Galloway are a common sight on the streets of the Mission district — covered in dirt and carrying baskets of salad mix from their backyard farm to Bar Tartine, a stylish upscale restaurant.
 

The supporters of industrial agri-business farming will not like this little tidbit but organic farming using animal manure makes is more profitable than chemical farming as reported on ScienceDaily.com,
 
No significant differences in corn yield were found between organic and chemical sources of nutrients, but a Texas AgriLife Research economist said manure generates higher economic returns than anhydrous ammonia.
 

In the aftermath of the GMO sugar beet ruling, which banned any new plantings until the USDA reviews the potential that the GMO crops could contaminate other crops, some sugar beet farmers are concerned that there may not be enough conventional seed available to plant as Michael J. Crumb reports for The Associated Press,
 
A judge’s ruling halting planting of genetically modified sugar beet seeds has left growers feeling uncertain as they wait for federal officials to decide the next step for a crop that provides half of the nation’s sugar supply.

Kerry Trueman writes on her blog EatingLiberally.com,
 
Stephen Budiansky, self-proclaimed “liberal curmudgeon,” has stuffed together another flimsy, flammable straw man out of boilerplate anti-locavore rhetoric on The New York Times op-ed page, with the patronizing title Math Lessons For Locavores.
 

I read this article and scratch my head… they are basically saying, “it is nobody’s fault” that GMO Roundup Ready canola seed has jumped the borders of the fields where it was grown and is now considered a “noxious weed.” WTF? This will become the battle cry as GMO plants continue to spread out from their intended cultivation plots: “It’s not our fault.” Harry Cline reports for Western Farm Press,
 

We hear it all the time; industrial agriculture flacks on the teevee boasting about “feeding the world.” Well, as we are seeing with the 550 million egg recall, and previous recalls on beef and other fresh produce items, what good is it producing all the food that they boast about if nobody can eat it? Additionally, the chemical pollution from pesticide, herbicide and fertilizer run-off is not equated into the “feed the world” BS. Add to that the federal subsidies corporate agriculture receives results in the bottom line: it is just not worth it.
 

This cattle raising bozo informs us he hasn’t met a chemical that he doesn’t love and to shut up, open our mouths while he force feeds us to consume those shitty GMOs…
 
Keep trying to stop progress you anti-biotech fanatics. It won’t work! Those of us who support biotech and believe in its ability to improve the world in which we live are going to win.
 

Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! reports,
 

I only have fifteen orchids but two are in full bloom and four are about to bloom. They are under a 1000 watt metal halide light and share the light space with cactus, lettuce and basil. In the dead of winter there is something special with the splash of color orchids give you. This story  is about a woman who has a self built greenhouse in Indiana and has over eighty orchids. She shares the space with her husband’s bonsai collection. (Photo courtesy of Randy Read of San Diego-thanks!)