Today in Organic: November 9, 2009

• Curious what Michael Pollan's personal vegetable garden is like? According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Pollan and his wife, artist Judith Belzer, hired a landscape architect to transform their Berkeley front yard into a productive vegetable garden.

• I've haven't yet picked up a copy of Jonathan Safran Foer's new book, "Eating Animals," but I have read Elizabeth Kolbert's excellent New Yorker review, and as Gawker puts it, reading Kolbert's piece "will save you $15 or $20 and save us from hearing you opine on what you read by the guy that wrote Everything is Illuminated talking down to all of us about eating our vegetables."

• Is fruit juice just as bad for our health as soda? According to the LA Times, juice carries more calories and just as much sugar, but because juice is generally thought to be nutritious, parents don't ration it as they do soda.

• Daniel Fromson from The Atlantic takes a look at Washington D.C.'s other organic vegetable garden: The People's Garden at USDA headquarters, where 1,250 square feet of barren pavement has been transformed into a cluster of container gardens and raised beds.