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IBM Invents Earth-Friendly Plastic Made From Plants

March 10, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

In a paper published in the American Chemical Society journal, Macromolecules, scientists from IBM Research and Stanford University detail discoveries that could lead to the development of new types of biodegradable, bio-compatible plastics. The result of a multi-year research effort, the breakthrough also could lead to a new recycling process that has the potential to [...]

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Newest Idaho Greenhouse Is State Of The Art

March 7, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

The recently completed greenhouse at the College of Southern Idaho is the most modern educational facility in the state of Idaho. It grows plants using hydroponics and aeroponics, soil less systems that grow the plants faster than in soil.

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Cold Winter Hits Florida Tomato Supply

March 6, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

The unusually cold winter has made tomatoes from Florida in short supply with some estimates saying the cold weather has wiped out nearly 70% of the tomato crop. Many growers say the shortage will remain for awhile until newly planted replacements start to produce. Meanwhile, the shortage has made prices for fresh tomatoes skyrocket. Some [...]

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What San Francisco City Hall Calls Compost, Activists Call Toxic Sludge

March 5, 2010 Compost

Carolyn Tyler of television station KGO reports on San Francisco’s free give away to Bay Area gardeners of treated composted sewer sludge,
A free program in San Francisco is under attack by a group of activists who claim the compost the city gives away to local gardeners is toxic.
It was quite a spectacle at San Francisco [...]

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AeroFarms—Crops Without Soil

March 5, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

Aaron Munzer writes in The Ithaca Journal,
Ed Harwood wants to seed the cities of the future with thousands of indoor farms utilizing his new growing systems, based on the technology of aeroponics, which sprays a mist of nutrient-laden water on plant roots, instead of submerging them in water-like standard hydroponics.
Harwood’s company AeroFarms has engineered stackable, [...]

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Rocky Ravine Turned Into Thriving Cut Flower Business

March 4, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

While most of the commercial cut flower business is being put out of business due to exceedingly cheap imported Colombian cut flowers, Kendall Farms in San Diego County, California, is growing with “new, trendy and hot” Australian and South African cut flowers. The farm was started in 1987 by Dave Kendall on 50 acres of [...]

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Common Vision Fruit Tree Tour

March 3, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

Common Vision will run its annual Fruit Tree Tour through California, a 20-city, 70-day tour planting over 1000 fruit trees at urban schools from San Diego to Sacramento. Traveling in veggie oil-powered bus caravan, 25-earth educators from Common Vision will teach students about sustainable ecology.
Now in its 7th year, Common Vision’s Emmy Award-winning Fruit Tree [...]

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Urban Food Growing in Havana, Cuba

February 24, 2010 Compost

A clip from the BBC’s “Around the World in 80 Gardens” showing some of the urban food gardening in Havana, Cuba. Urban gardening is happening all over the world.

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Healthy Food Financing Initiative

February 22, 2010 Farm/Garden Politics

From a U.S. Department of Agriculture press release,
The Obama Administration released details of an over $400 million Healthy Food Financing Initiative, which will bring grocery stores and other healthy food retailers to underserved urban and rural communities across America. The initiative was announced in Philadelphia by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. [...]

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The Food Movies Just Keep Coming—Food Forward

February 20, 2010 Farm/Garden Politics

From the Food Forward web site,
The ills of industrial agriculture are well known. What we eat and the way we produce our food are sickening us and the planet. Movies such as Academy Award-nominated Food, Inc., Supersize Me and King Corn and writers like Michael Pollan (Botany of Desire and The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and [...]

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