Organic food now boasts more than 5 percent of the nation's total food sales. ... We maintained a source of local, organic produce including sweet corn, broccoli, kale, melon, ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — State superintendent Tony Thurmond is trying to make progress on his “Mission Possible: Go Organic” initiative to increase organic food in school meals.

In the food world, organic means a product has been grown without the use of most synthetic fertilizers and pesticides and isn't genetically modified. For cattle, that also means they have been ...