COMMENTARY

A couple of weeks ago I headed to Baltimore for Natural Products Expo East — the annual trade show that features speakers, seminars, and parties to inform and celebrate the hugely successful natural and organic products industry. In years past I have attended these events as a contractor for OTA, but this year I was wearing my journalist/blogger’s hat, and was invited to participate in the New Hope Network Blogger Coop. The trade show itself occupied several floors of the Bal

Greetings from Edinburgh, Scotland! It so happens that my trip to Great Britain coincided with a historic referendum that has thrown the future of this nation (or should I say, these nations) into a haze of uncertainty. Welcome to the age of Brexit, and a political tableau that appears to be a mirror image of this unpredictable electoral season back home in the good old USA. The organic community has also recently become caught up in another political wrangle. The blogosphere