Farm subsidies list

The Environmental Working Group has put out an interactive map of those farmers (and many non-farmers) who received government subsidies.

Joe Sixpack: Honey + hops = beer

My favorite beer writer, Joe Sixpack of (my employer) the Philadelphia Daily News, extols the virtues of honey beer in his latest column.

Beyond The Hive: Roundup said to cause birth defects

A newly discovered/released report shows how authorities have known for years that Roundup causes birth defects in laboratory animals.
An interesting note within this link is criticism from a professor that the active ingredient in Roundup also ends up making plants more vulnerable to disease, which, hmmm, let me guess, might force consumers to buy Monsanto's ready-made, genetically modified, "disease-resistant" plants. It is a vicious - and I mean vicious - circle.

Honey production in Philadelphia

This is from Newsworks, a public media production, about Philadelphia honey production.

Beyond The Hive: Your White House garden on tax subsidies

Not sure of the origin of this, but it makes for an interesting map. (I include the link to give props to whoever posted it.) It shows how the current White House kitchen garden is laid out, and what that garden would look like if it represented the crops subsidized by tax dollars.

Honey and capitalism

A couple of interesting reports today. The Boston Herald notes that the price of honey is skyrocketing, while the Washington Post gardening columnist writes about the high costs of shrinking bee populations.