Tree Hill’s 2013 Butterfly Festival: We have a winner!!

At the April 27 Tree Hill Nature Center Butterfly Festival, folks were able to sign up for email subscription to The Organic Adventurer, thus entering a drawing for an official Organic Adventurer T-shirt.

This is the design on the back:

These beauties are super-soft Anvil Organic cotton T-shirts in their City Green color. We wanted [...]

The 2013 Butterfly Festival recap: Sunshiny images for this rainy day

It seems like here in North Florida, it’s either feast or famine when it comes to rain. Today we’re feasting…more like drowning, really!

If this keeps up, we'll have to name this river!

So it seemed like a great day to reflect on last Saturday’s sunshine-filled celebration of a critter that’s most definitely not [...]

The Organic Adventurer at 12th annual Joseph A. Strasser Butterfly Festival this Saturday

There are a ridiculous number of fantastic events going on in Jacksonville, FL, on Saturday, April 27, one of which is a virtual institution in this town: the Butterfly Festival at Tree Hill Nature Center. This year, The Organic Adventurer is very excited to be participating in this celebration of nature, so allow us to [...]

GMO labeling: What’s next in legislation?

By now you probably know that the California ballot initiative to require labeling of most products containing GMOs, Proposition 37, did not pass in November. (For a primer on the issue, read http://theorganicadventurer.com/2012/10/03/catch-up-time-part-2-gmo-labeling/). The California Secretary of State’s Statement of Vote, the official final vote tally, was certified on December 17 and reflected 51.4% voting [...]

Palm oil and orangutans: What’s the story?

The Organic Adventurer is back! Actually, we’ve been “back,” reading page after page of documentation and research in order to bring you that update on GMOs and the labeling fight. But that’s for the next post. Something happened the other day that made us realize we needed to stop everything and put a quick post [...]