In this corner: Weighing in at just one vote short of champion, the Montana Alliance for Raw Milk, which just lost the right for small farmers in the state to sell raw milk directly to consumers. The loss means raw milk is still illegal in Montana, just as it is in much of the rest of the country. And weighing in at the other corner: the recent New York state judge's hefty ruling that Mayor Michael Bloomberg's soda ban is “arbitrary and capricious” despite soda's many known health risks. It's gonna be quite a fight! Welcome to Battle of the Ridiculous Beverage Bans!

If you're hip to CSAs—community supported agriculture, where you pay upfront for a "subscription" to fresh food from a farm—then you might want to keep your eyes open for the latest trend, CSRs: community supported restaurants.

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) honors remarkable individuals for their contributions to creating healthier and more sustainable food systems through their annual Growing Green Awards. This year's winners are tackling antibiotic resistance on farms, infusing urban areas with fresh produce in corner stores, championing business innovation in organic agriculture, and empowering communities with sustainable food equity projects.

Whole Foods Market recently announced that it's teaming up with New York's Gotham Greens to build the nation's first commercial-scale greenhouse atop a supermarket at the company's Brooklyn location opening in September 2013. What took them so long?

Kickstarter is getting a lot of positive press lately, and rightly so! The funding site helps creative people gain financial footing and successfully start, or improve, their business.

Recently, TechCrunch.com featured Click & Grow. Click & Grow is marketed as an easy-to-use electronic smartpot that can grow plants without fertilizing and watering. The company wants to use the money raised on the crowdfunding site to turn its functioning prototype into a production-ready product. After perusing the Kickstarter site, I found a few pretty stellar green-themed projects that are also worthy of a kick.

Join Organic Authority on April 21 at 1pm PT for an Earth Day celebration with Whole Foods Market! Our very own Editor-in-Chief, Laura Klein, will be hosting a live cooking demo from the Fairfax location in Los Angeles. But you can tune in from anywhere. Read on for the details.

Many foods enjoy superhero status for containing a high number of healthy properties. While no regulations on use of the term "superfood" actually exist, it's commonly used in reference to a food where the nutritional value far outweighs the caloric load. It's no wonder then that most often, superfoods are fruits and vegetables. That is, unless you're in Pakistan, where the superfood du jour is camel milk.

April is Earth Month! How are you celebrating and honoring the planet this Earth Day? We've got a great way for you to participate in the festivities: join us in our exclusive Community Garden Board on Pinterest! With your help we can make this the biggest community garden on Pinterest! 

So, what exactly are we asking you to do? It's pretty simple, really:

Early last month, Whole Foods Market, the nation's largest grocery chain focused on organic and natural products, made a major announcement: It will require all vendors to label products that contain genetically modified ingredients by 2018. The responses have been all across the board from extremely supportive to highly critical.

Are they elongated walnuts? Wee, tiny brains on a stalk? Nope, neither. These strange-looking but delicious-tasting wild mushrooms are called morels. They grow across most of the United States. But, while they grow plentifully, they're so popular that hunting spots are kept as well-guarded family secrets. Use these 12 hunting tips to score a few of your own.