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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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. While the practice is currently an environmental rather than a financial trend, some companies hope it can become a money-making business model, providing a cheaper alternative to store-bought produce, especially in low income neighborhoods where fresh vegetables are expensive and scarce.”
For complete story click HERE. Photo credit: VofAnews.com
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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 its way to zero waste.
When the Peterka family moved to Shoreline, they brought part of the farm with them. They ripped up the backyard lawn and planted a large garden.
They built a fenced chicken coop in one corner, and worm and compost bins in the other. Then they made some sacrifices.”
Click HERE to read the story.
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The rotting carcass of a 70 ft. blue whale killed in an open ocean collision with a research ship last week was originally going to be left on the rocky beach where the whale washed ashore to decompose. But now a new plan has been put into place to benefit local gardeners next year.
Glenda Anderson writes in The Press Democrat,
“Tons of rotting, putrid whale blubber and meat is being trucked from Fort Bragg to Potter Valley, where it will metamorphose into soil-nourishing fertilizer.”
“It’s a fitting use for the less valuable parts of the 72-foot blue whale that died after colliding with a research ship off the Fort Bragg coast last week, said organizers who are working to salvage its skeleton for science and education.”
Click HERE to read the whole article. View the video below for the gory details of the blubber removal…
Photo credit: John Burgess/The Press Democrat
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ABC News reports, “Michelle Obama led harvest day at the White House Kitchen Garden this afternoon. With several dozen local elementary students and the White House kitchen staff on hand to help, the First Lady dug into the dirt, pulling up sweet potatoes, fennel, carrots and the occasional worm.”
For the White House transcript of Michelle Obama’s remarks, click HERE.
Photo credit: AP Photo/Alex Brandon
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I hope many of you were able to watch last night the PBS documentary, Botany of Desire. It was and is an excellent program.
One of the segments in the two hour program was on cannabis. For decades, any mainstream media piece on cannabis was at the least, sensational, and at worst, pure government propaganda. But today, with more and more calls for legalization, or at least an unbiased debate, Cannabis is being featured in more high brow discussions, debates and presentations. The stoned out hippie pot jokes are at a minimum.
Below, is a video of an academic presentation Michael Pollan made in 2002 at the University of California at Berekley, where Pollan is a professor in the graduate school of journalism. He doesn’t really get into discussing cannabis until about 18 minutes into the video. His talks make me want to go back to college and take a class from Pollan. This is from a person who fell asleep in more than one lecture while he was in college. He is that interesting.
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I received an advance review copy of the PBS television documentary of Michael Pollan’s book, Botany of Desire. Just as the book was, the television show, narrated by Pollan, is a very interesting two hours, exploring how four familiar species of plants; the apple, the tulip, marijuana and the potato, evolved into their interactions with humans satisfying our yearnings for sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control respectively. A half hour is devoted to each of the species, covering their history and how they traveled and evolved into what they are today. Surprisingly, the plants have shaped us and have used us to travel the world.
The most controversial plant, marijuana, has been in the news lately, with speculation that it is going to be legal within the next few years, so everybody can grow its beautiful flowers in their garden without the threat of arrest. It truly is a beautiful flower in many colors.
The program airs nationally on Wednesday, Oct. 28 on your local PBS channel at 9pm. You can purchase a copy of the program HERE. It is well worth it.
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The trend over the past year has been to rip up the lawn at government buildings and plant a garden, with the bureaucrats permission of course. The folks over at the Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters and museum in Washington, D.C. weren’t expecting a bunch of hemp farmers to show up and plant some hemp on the lawn of the DEA building. But that is just what civilly-disobedient hemp farmers and business leaders did and were promptly arrested for trespassing.
David Bronner, the president of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, a more than 60-year-old company that does tens of millions of dollars of business annually, was among those arrested.
To read the whole story, click HERE.
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