The Practice of “Owning” Plant Patents

10/11/2016

Patenting plants and the processes to create them When you think about plant patents, it might surprise you to learn… Read More

Let’s Not Waste Coffee

10/04/2016

Turning our Morning Fill into Fuel Those of us living in the industrial world waste more than we should, but… Read More

Tummy-Turning: Food Poisoning

09/13/2016

Food poisoning is more serious than you might thinkRemember this commercial, with the “tummy turning” bug picked up while travelling? While… Read More

Growing the Urban Garden

09/06/2016

Educating a new generation of consumers While there has been a seemingly endless amount of rain this summer, it did… Read More

Those Dang Weeds

08/09/2016

Weeds have a large impact on farming if improperly controlled Weeds can be controlled by one of two means, cultivation… Read More

Money Can Grow on Trees When You’re Selling Water

08/02/2016

Does tap water still quench your thirst or are you now looking for that next level of hydration? Look no… Read More

Top Scientists Chastise Greenpeace

07/26/2016

100+ Nobel Laureates call for an end to GM crop protesting The Nobel Prize was established upon the death of… Read More

Never let facts stand in the way of a good story

07/19/2016

Woodward or Bernstein, he is not! Sean Previl, a journalist with the Halifax Chronicle Herald, has shown that he is… Read More

Not Such a Fun Guy, These Fungi

07/12/2016

Plant diseases having increasingly devastating effects In June I was fortunate enough to attend a captivatingly interesting conference organized by… Read More

Making ¢’s of Meat Prices

06/28/2016

Why is steak more expensive than chicken? We know that it costs money to produce the items we rely on… Read More