From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Winter Farmers Market In Concord, NH

January 31, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

All across the country, an increasing number of farmers markets are operating year round as more farmers have produce and other value added products to offer consumers. Eleanor Baron writes on the NourishingWords.net blog about one in the northeast in the middle of a cold winter day,
Let there be no doubt that Concord, New Hampshire [...]

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Strawberry Tents Forever

January 31, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

Timothy P. Howshare writes on Hernandotoday.com,
It could be a marriage made in a strawberry field, or a tent, to be more precise.
Business owner Rodney Busto was looking for a local farmer to test out his new vertical growing system. Farm owners Ted and Lisa Kessel weren’t entirely satisfied with vertical growing system they’d been using [...]

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Growing Your Own Food Is Fashionable Again

January 31, 2010 Compost

Valerie Easton writes in The Seattle Times,
The heady days of high horticulture, when gardeners would kill for the newest and coolest perennial, are well and truly over. The resurgence of food gardening has ushered in a post-competitive era, where people share seeds and meals, and even welcome landless gardeners into their backyards for a little [...]

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How Soil Savvy Are You?

January 30, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

This video is from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s recent exhibit, Dig It! The Secrets of Soil. The exhibit will travel around the country when it closes in Washington. Watch for it in your area.

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Ten Misconceptions About Soil

January 30, 2010 Compost

Melanie D.G. Kaplan writes on SmartPlanet.com,
Dr. Pat Megonigal, a biogeochemist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) in Edgewater, Md., recently curated an exhibit called Dig It! The Secrets of Soil, which was on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. His soil research at SERC focuses on wetlands and tidal marshes, and [...]

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Lawn-Care Firms Seek Criminal Charges Against Public Health Officials

January 30, 2010 Farm/Garden Politics

Martin Mittelstaedt writes in The Globe and Mail newspaper,
An individual representing Ontario lawn-care companies is trying to have Criminal Code charges levied against doctors, public health officials and environmentalists who publicly lobbied the province to institute a ban on the cosmetic use of pesticides around homes.
Among the 23 named are prominent employees or volunteers at [...]

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When Is Solar Energy Not Green?

January 29, 2010 Farm/Garden Politics

When GMO plants are used to produce it… Scientists from the University of California, Berkeley have genetically engineered viruses and injected them into tobacco plants triggering the plants to grow solar cells.
Currently, GMO plants that become the food we eat has triggered a backlash in the public’s perception against GMOs. But if GMO plants are [...]

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Snow Doesn’t Keep This Farm From Salad Days

January 28, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

Gretchen McKay writes in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
This time of year, Western Pennsylvania farmland tends to be covered in snow. So unless you’re trying to shed the spare tire you put on, quite unintentionally, over the holidays, you might not be thinking “salad” for dinner. Better to wait until spring, when fresh, leafy greens start showing [...]

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Greenhouses Offer Different Winter Environment

January 28, 2010 Greenhouses

Adrian Higgins writes in The Washington Post,
Step out of Gene Schurg’s finished basement and into his orchid-packed greenhouse, and suddenly all those cravings for spring evaporate.
The air is moist and warm, and the earthy scent of the place is spiced with a sweet fragrance when you sidle up to an orchid in fresh bloom. For [...]

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How To Build Your Own Lettuce Raft System

January 27, 2010 Hydroponics

Keith Roberto writes in the Urban Garden magazine on how to build your own simple and small floating raft lettuce system,
There are many ways to grow lettuce hydroponically. Here’s a system that’s simple, inexpensive ($20-$30 complete) and “complex” enough to satisfy any first timer’s appetite for a fun project that actually works pretty well. It’s [...]

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