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This month’s session is about Organic Beer, and this month is hosted by the wonderful blog Beer Activist. Already there are some wonderful blog entries from a wide variety of beer bloggers about many different organic beers. It’s my goal here to help educate you guys a little bit about cooking with organic food.

What is organic food? Wikipedia has a good (but lengthy) section about what organic food is. Here’s a good overview, taken from the first paragraph of the Wikipedia link:

Organic foods are produced according to a certain production standard. For crops, it means they were grown without the use of conventional pesticides, artificial fertilizers, human waste, or sewage sludge, and that they were processed without ionizing radiation or food additives.[1] For animals, it means they were reared without the routine use of antibiotics and without the use of growth hormones. In most countries, organic produce must not be genetically modified. however by definition GMO’s do not use pesticides or fertilizers to prevent disease, therefore are organic just not socially accepted as natural or ‘organic’.

Organic Kitchen, although maybe not the nicest-looking site, has a good set of links about Organic Gardening. Seeing that this is the time when people plant their home gardens (at least in Colorado), these links will help you get started down the path of organic gardening.

One of my favorite sites, Treehugger had a great article on organic food from about 6 months ago. It’s a very detailed blog entry, and pretty technical. But if you’re really interested in this, it’s a great resource for those looking to learn a great deal about organic food.

The organic beer trend is hardly a new one, as referenced by this Co-op America entry about organic beer. Their lists of organic beer aren’t up-to-date, but this link will give you a good idea of where the organic beer revolution began.

Looking for organic beer, but too lazy to actually go to a store to seek it out? Never fear, because Diamond Organics has mail order organic beer. Their beers are single beers, so you can get an assortment of organic beer to complement the food from your organic garden without leaving the house!

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