http://www.nantucketindependent.com/news/2008/1119/other_news/018.html
From Nantucket Independent Online, Nov 18, 2008

 
Organic landscaping school
 

http://www.projo.com/business/content/RAWMILK_09-12-08_0NBGIH2_v9.bb7ffe.html September 12, 2008 Terri Lawton is one of several Massachusetts dairy farmers opening their farms for the Northeast Organic Farming Association’s Raw Milk Dairy Day tomorrow from noon to 4 p.m. The Oake Knoll Ayrshire and Holstein cows at Lawton’s Family Farm in Foxboro graze on grass, and they do not receive hormones or antibiotics. Their milk is not pasteurized. Lawton sells it raw.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/09/11/where_lawn_pros_see_the_grass_is_greener/ In a region that still boasts lots of open space and its share of farms, a school of organic land-care professionals stakes their philosophy every time they plant a tomato seedling. "As time goes on, people understand more and more how what we do to our environment affects our health," said Frank Albani of Plymouth, an organic vegetable grower and former board president of the state chapter of the Northeast Organic Farming Association. "The last thing we want to do is spread poison on our

ON THE DAIRY FARM by CATHERINE WALTHERS, MARTHA'S VINEYARD MAGAZINE, September 2008
Chilmark’s Mermaid Farm has the only certified raw milk and yogurt on the Island. The husband-and-wife team of Allen Healy and Caitlin Jones also grows produce, raises sheep, and sells lamb to round out their business.
by Catherine Walthers
It’s 5:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning and Allen Healy walks down the worn path from his house to the barn. It’s a warm summer day, and he gets right to work. He sanitizes two milk buckets as well as the equipment to milk his cows.

Betsy Yagla
Fairfield County Weekly

The federal government doesn't enforce standards for organic lawn care but that doesn't mean there aren't any. Organic lawn care is a growing industry whose specialists are slowly weaning customers over their chemical dependency.

Using fertilizer on your lawn "is like feeding a kid sugar all the time," says Alexis Brown, the owner of Dirty Hoe Gardening Services of New Haven. Organic lawns are greener, cleaner and healthier.