An article in The New York Times reports on efforts to revive American Indian foods. On the Tohono O'odham Reservation southwest of Tucson, farmer Noland Johnson grows tepary beans, once a staple of the Tohono O'odham diet but now hard to find.

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A Public Citizen investigation illustrates how big agribusiness used millions of dollars in lobbying expenditures and campaign contributions, and a network of Washington insiders with close connections to the Bush administration and Congress, to thwart mandating country-of-origin labeling (COOL).

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Seven tips for buying organic foods

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Those annoying little stickers on fruit may have one redeeming quality for consumers: They tell whether fruit was grown conventionally, organically or was genetically engineered.

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Doug Flack is adamant that animals are required for a healthy farm. "Livestock farming has gotten a very bad name from vegetarianism," he believes. "Livestock are crucial, absolutely essential to fertility" on a farm. "I think you're making a mistake if you're trying to farm without livestock." Using livestock, the vision of the Flack Family Farm is "to create a farm organism," and the livestock are one of the many organs in the organism.

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My involvement with Maine, food and agriculture goes back to my college days at Bates College. Those were the days – the early days of food security, of the "back to the land" movement, of the early-organic period, of trying to take control of one vital facet of our lives – namely food.

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