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Alaskan Gardeners Recycle Plastic Pots

August 30, 2010 Environment

Once again, Alaskan gardeners have proven themselves to be above reproach, no matter what their former Governor does. Last weekend, they broke their own record at the Fourth Annual Nursery Pot Recycling event sponsored by The Alaska Botanical Garden and Alaskans for Litter Prevention and Recycling, along with Anchorage waste hauler, Smurfit Stone. Over 4,600 [...]

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Wishful Thinking: Frankenwheat To Feed The World

August 28, 2010 Environment

I have ranted before of my opinion on world hunger. I will say it again: It is not a problem of production or yield. It is a problem of industrialized, corporate for profit food companies controlling from seed to harvest the food that the world needs to feed the hungry. We throw away enough food [...]

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Inside The Secret World Of Trader Joe’s

August 26, 2010 What's Growing

Trader Joe’s is like a smaller Costco in that a grocery shopper goes into the store for one item and comes out with many items, sometimes forgetting to buy the item he or she went into the store to purchase in the first place. It is another example of good old US consumer impulse buying [...]

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Tour de Coop On Bainbridge Island

August 9, 2010 What's Growing

The urban chicken craze/trend is in full swing all across the U.S
Almost all areas of the country have Garden Tours of private gardens as fundraisers for non-profit organizations. But on Bainbridge Island, across Puget Sound from Seattle, the second-annual Bainbridge Island “Tour de Coop” is scheduled for Saturday, July 17, from 11-4pm. The vision and [...]

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Grass Covered Sofas

July 27, 2010 What's Growing

The British National Trust organization found that families spend up to 43 hours A WEEK on sofas. The ‘living’ rooms are made entirely out of natural materials – grass and turf – offering families the chance to experience the British countryside and picturesque gardens from the familiar comfort of a sofa.
The outdoor living rooms – [...]

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Anthony Bourdain: My War On Fast Food

June 13, 2010 What's Growing

From the Guardian.co.uk site,
The bad boy chef wants his young daughter to see fast food as the enemy. And in his eyes no tactic is too dirty in his fight against McDonald’s. Bourdain says his reason for going to war on fast food is, ‘The stakes are high. As I see it, nothing less than [...]

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What Is The Growing Edge?

May 12, 2010 Around the Office

This site is getting a lot of new traffic from people who have never heard of The Growing Edge now that I have increased my Twitter activities. The Growing Edge, when it was published on paper from 1989-2009, reported on aquaponics, hydroponics and greenhouses exclusively. When I stopped publishing it on paper in early 2009 [...]

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Carved Watermelon Art

April 30, 2010 What's Growing

Click to view many more Carved Watermelon Art photos.

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San Francisco City Sanctioned Community Garden

April 25, 2010 What's Growing

In San Francisco, Mayor Gavin is promoting community gardens on unused city owned land,

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There Is A Gardening Sucker Born Every Minute

April 20, 2010 What's Growing

W.C. Fields would be proud of this… I keep getting email spam for “Grow Strawberries All Year Long. You’ll have delicious strawberries in just 60 days. You can pot in soil or any other potting medium.”
“For only $9.98 plus $6.95 S&H, you can grow your own delicious, juicy Tri-Star All Season Strawberries. Each package includes [...]

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