From the monthly archives:

October 2009

Child Labor May Have Picked Your Walmart Blueberries

October 31, 2009 Farming & Agriculture

ABC News Friday night aired an investigative report called “The Blueberry Children” about the blueberry farms in Michigan using child labor as young as five years old. Disgusting. This shows how the “free market” that ignores regulations can devolve into this crap.
For the complete story click HERE.
Photo credit: ABC News

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British Royal Society—Fight World Hunger With GMOs

October 31, 2009 Farm/Garden Politics

Britain’s national academy of science is calling for a multi-billion-dollar research program on global food security. The Royal Society says genetically modified plants should be an essential tool for feeding the world by 2050, but anti-GMO food activists object claiming GMOs destroys the livelihood of small-scale farmers.
The Royal Society recently released the report, titled Reaping [...]

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Pricey Plants Pilfered At Yale University

October 31, 2009 Flowers

Thieves stealing expensive plants is a phenomena that is happening all over the country. Some people are waking up to find that loved and well cultivated rare plant or tree in their front yard was dug up by plant thieves overnight. Garden art is also susceptible to thieves who think free is a very good [...]

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More Big Apple Rooftop Gardeners

October 30, 2009 Farming & Agriculture

Paige Kollock writes in VoiceofAmericaNews.com,
“New York is a city notoriously short on space, but also one whose residents are big on innovation. In the Big Apple, the latest trend is rooftop farming. Individuals and restaurants are beginning to grow some of their own food in the only space available to them — their roofs. [...]

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Prison Prawns—Inmates Try Raising Shrimp

October 30, 2009 Aquaponics

In the defunct print edition of The Growing Edge, I reported on numerous county, state and federal prisons that were raising hydroponic crops in the prisons, both to give the prisoners fresh produce in their usually bland meals and to teach the inmates a skill that they might be able to use once they get [...]

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Where Am I At?

October 30, 2009 Around the Office

That is a good question which I am trying to figure out… The short answer… I am not sure. The past year has presented me with so many life challenges I should have been a juggler.
My job search sucks like everybody else’s…I have put around 40 applications out there and I have had one interview. [...]

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We Can’t Reform Health Care Without Reforming Food

October 30, 2009 Farm/Garden Politics

With all the shrill voices screeching on about death panels, Obamacare, communism and socialism, the real cause of America’s declining health has been lost in the anarchy of the “debate.”
As Bob Cesca in The Huffington Post writes,
If and when health care reform finally passes, we will have successfully ameliorated only half of the crisis. The [...]

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Gardeners Have The Power

October 30, 2009 Farming & Agriculture

Roger Doiron, one of the major forces behind the Obama White House creating their vegetable garden, now has much a much larger vision. From the blurb about the organization Kitchen Gardeners International’s rock out video below, Doiron writes,
Together, gardeners and good food advocates pitched in to help give the White House and the Obamas a [...]

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For The Love Of The Garden

October 30, 2009 Flowers

Would you give up a dream job, your house, your entire life to work for free? Well, that’s exactly what this woman has done, giving up her own business to garden in a garden she fell in love with on a European garden tour. It was love at first sight.
Elizabeth Murray, upon coming [...]

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Family Plowing Its Way To Zero Waste

October 30, 2009 Compost

A family that used to live on a rural farm moved to the city and is changing their lawns to gardens and cutting down on their consumer waste. Gary Chittim of Seattle’s KING 5 television News reports,
“A family of four has moved from the farm to an urban Puget Sound community and is now plowing [...]

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