Soil & Health Association
January/February 2012
Features
* Cleaning up our waterways: A Rotorua initiative
Plus -
- Horse-powered CSA: An apprentice's view
- Strawberries: The taste of summer
- The falling age of puberty:Why it's everyone's problem
- Soil biology: Creatures beneath the earth
- Kiwifruit grower Peter Downard and dairy farmer Gavin Fisher
- Low tech chook house
- Super Summer salads
- The resurgence of hemp
- Genetic engineering: Substantially equivalent to previous farming practices? PLUS
-Moon calender for January/February
and much more!
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Read our Submission to Environment Bay of Plenty Proposed Regional Policy Statement
The Soil & Health Association has many members in EBOP’s rohe which share concern over poor environmental outcomes of many land and water use activities. Genetic engineering (GE) within the region has no real controls besides those of the Environmental Risk Management Authority, and that agency has glossed over the risks. An holistic approach to land and water use is required if land is to retain its productive capacity, and fresh water and marine habitats are to be restored. Air quality objectives must take special account of methyl bromide use and other pesticide use in the region. More...
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Soil & Health is delighted to announce that the first recipient of Project Gro funds is EcoMatters Trust in Auckland.
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AgResearch transgender goats to be milked
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Unborn NZ children exposed to genetically engineered toxin
May 24, 2011
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May 11, 2011
Should AgResearch be charged with fraud?
May 9, 2011
ERMA swallowed genetic bull from AgResearch
May 5, 2011
Celebration as killer pesticide Endosulfan ban goes global
April 30, 2011
Can Ngai Tahu Change Agria- New Hope- PGG Wrightsons Genetic Engineering Direction?
April 20, 2011
Scion smoke signals warn of imminent GE tree planting
April 17, 2011
Government must separate GE foods in NZ stores
April 11, 2011
Dirty tricks campaign to get genetic engineering into the New Zealand landscape
April 3, 2011
Soil & Health joins Federated Farmers opposing biosecurity plans
March 29, 2011
Methyl bromide gas seeps through Picton’s Ferry Terminal
March 28, 2011
Visiting Professor on GE sales mission misrepresents reality
March 23, 2011









