Linley Dixon is Farm and Food Policy Analyst at The Cornucopia Institute. She owns a vegetable farm (marketing through a CSA, farm to school, and at farmers markets) in Durango, Colo., with her husband and 4-year-old daughter. Prior to farming, she spent 15 years studying the impact of farm diversity on plant disease levels. She holds a Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from the University of Florida and a Master’s in Plant and Soil Science through West Virginia University’s Organic Farm Project.
Rural America
Why Is the Biodiversity Rule for USDA Organic Certification Not Being Enforced?
Linley Dixon
Rural America
The USDA is Helping Industrial Hydroponics Water Down the Definition of Organic Farming
Linley Dixon
Rural America
The USDA’s Organic Seal Should Not (and Must Not) Apply to Hydroponics
Linley Dixon
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
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