Happy Organic Month, Neighbors!

This Think Wisely is all about discovering new products and revisiting old favorites, but they all have this in common—they’re Certified Organic. Because, for the love of our health, our soil, biodiversity, and the planet’s future—we support organic.

Every spring my yard comes alive. Violets, clover, and buttercups mingle with dandelions and thick grass, creating a lush carpet to welcome bumblebees, honeybees, and swallowtail butterflies with the first food of the season.

Where wildflowers bloom, the honey tastes better, the pheasants cackle, and the farmer’s soil holds its own against erosion! That’s the experience of Iowa farmer Eric Hoien, as he described to BioScience in 2023.

On a quiet street lined with tidy homes and manicured lawns lives a friend of mine. But Maria's front yard is unlike any other on the block. Hers is a riot of color and texture, a wild garden buzzing with life. And when I follow her out back on a warm Texas afternoon to sit beneath a vine-covered arbor, we're surrounded by an even greater variety of plants, birds, and insects.

“The future of our planet lies in indigenous ways of living on the Earth.”

— John Waterhouse, National Geographic¹

Biodiversity… it’s the millions of organisms in a handful of soil, the magic of the Amazon Rainforest, it’s the reason some of us love cilantro, and others find it tastes like soap.^{1 2 3} It’s the variation of all life on earth and essential to our planet’s survival.^{4 5} Now, it’s facing its greatest crisis in human history, but biodiversity is beautifully resilien

Eat Like a Regenivore to Help Save the Planet!

In the face of climate change, eating can be a revolutionary act. Indeed, the way you choose to eat has likely never been as important as it is now.

“Wanted” posters, old maps, and conversations with strangers at small-town country stores—these are the methods apple detectives use to find lost varieties of a fruit that once grew in orchards around the country.^{1 2 3 4} According to The Illustrated History of Apples in the United States and Canada by Daniel Bussey, more than 16,000 unique types have been docum

“Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.” —Frans Lanting

Roughly 75 percent of the world’s food comes from just 12 plants and five animal species, and that staggering lack of biodiversity ripples across every aspect of food production, “from soil to seed to pollinator,” as journalist Simran Sethi put it.¹ Once lost, biodiversity cannot be recovered—this is the warning issued by the State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and A

Soil health, biodiversity, and a resilient economy are each vital elements for sustaining human life on this planet, and they also benefit significantly from the organic approach to farming. Let's take a trip around the world to explore recent organic research.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that each year more than nine million Americans get sick from foodborne illnesses, leading to around 56,000 hospitalizations and 1,350 deaths.¹ Fresh fruits and vegetables are often the culprits, but the pathogens most often are traced back to animal sources, specifically to their manure.