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Find out about what we've been up to, useful tips and info on how eating quinoa as part of a healthy diet helps prevent diabetes.

Find out about what we've been up to, useful tips and info on how eating quinoa as part of a healthy diet helps prevent diabetes.

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End of GM?

GM, or genetically modified crops are known for being herbicide tolerant, meaning they can be sprayed with a weed-killer that kills all other growing plants. This isn’t as efficient as it sounds, as some weeds are getting just as tolerant as the GM crops and developing a resistance to herbicides. Of course, GM organisations are making promises about developing new improved crops, with more nutritional benefits, with better drought tolerance, with a greater yield and so on. But considering the fact that genetic modification was developed in the 1980s and first used in the 1990s, either these companies’ research is...

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How to grow vegetables with your smartphone

Thanks to Taipei-based company OPCOM, you can now grow your own vegetables at home and with your smartphone. This innovation is a farm cube that is a fully enclosed ecosystem allowing you to grow 100 to 200 pieces per cycle (around 6 weeks) depending on the vegetable. The process starts with loading the seedlings into the cube. The rest is then completely automated, thanks to a farming software that monitors the growth cycle of the plant, adjusting the environment accordingly with the right amount of light and water. And in case you’re not home and worried about your babies, you...

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Charge your phone with a Plant

Barcelona based company Arkyne Technologies have taken renewable energy to a new level: the soil and roots of a plant. They came up with a way of charging your phone via plant photosynthesis. The leaves are used like solar panels where sunshine turns carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and organic compounds. Then, there are microorganisms (or bacteria) inside the pot that break down the compounds into electrons. All you have to do is plug your device into the undercover pebble designed USB port and charge up. It can provide up to 3 full charges a day. The product is...

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$200,000 in Fairtrade Premium!

For thousands of years, quinoa was cultivated in the Andes by the Incas, who considered it as the sacred crop of the gods and the “mother of all grains” (hence the name Mothergrain). Launched in 2011, Quinola Mothergrain is an organic and Fairtrade brand, sourcing and producing the finest quinoa there is. Grown and harvested at 4000 meters on the Peruvian Altiplano, Quinola is produced using sustainable farming techniques. The founder, James Livingstone-Wallace, helps in the development of the cooperative through the purchase of tractors, trucks and other material to facilitate harvesting and sorting the grains before getting them to...

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