Top 5 - Organic News to Help You Grow #158

1. Organic Food Sales in Canada Rise 57%

Data from Statistics Canada shows that annual retail sales of organic food and beverage products in Canada have increased 57% over the past five years and that consumers in this country now spend more than $5 billion a year buying organic products.

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2. Deal Positions Planet Organic as UK's Largest Organic Retailer 

UK health and wellbeing retailer Planet Organic has completed a takeover of As Nature Intended in a deal which makes it the largest specialist organic grocer in the country.

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3. Lessons from Sweden’s Organic Farming Sector

Organic farming in Sweden is way ahead of the UK. As much as 20 percent of the cropped land area is organic, and more than 10 percent of the food market.

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4. Organic Farming Doesn’t Deserve Bad Press

Negative headlines about organic farming’s carbon footprint are missing the bigger picture about its environmental benefits, say Christel Cederberg and Hayo van der Werf.

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5. Palm Beach County’s Arden is an “Agrihood”

Arden is an agrihood: Instead of being built around a golf course, the heart of Arden is an organic farm where residents are allowed to till the soil and reap some of the bounty grown on-site. 

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