In Northern Michigan, two former school teachers quit teaching school when their son was born six years ago and started a farm using vertically stacked hydroponic units to grow vegetables as Kristine Morris reports for Morning Star Publishing,
Sol Hydro offers sustainable farming in limited space on a clean and attractive plot of land about 10,000 [...]
Occasionally I guest blog on other blogs or sites. Today on GardenRant.com, the four gardening women orchestrating the Rant started a two week vacation/hiatus and will be running guest posts each day. I really appreciate they ran mine since Garden Rant is one of the premier sites about gardening. My post can be found here… [...]
Making your own compost and once it is ready, sifting it, then turning it into a rich planting medium is both economical and a nutrition boost to young plants. Rick Gush has lived in Italy since 2000 and writes about his cliff garden and other experiences in Italian urban agriculture on UrbanFarmOnline.com,
I cleaned out [...]
It is garden tour season. Many non-profits hook up with community, public and private gardens for organized tours as a fund raising event. This was one in Ferguson, Missouri this past weekend.
If you are a regular reader of The Growing Edge, you know how I feel about genetically modified crops and that I don’t buy the public relations spin of “feeding the world.” Now the GM companies are introducing a new pr spin, “fueling the world” as Lucy Sharratt reports in CommonGround.ca,
Ten years ago, Monsanto tried [...]
In the future, an apple a day may send you to a doctor since the frankenfreaks of genetic modification have cracked the DNA code of the apple, opening up the the development of GMO apples. The BBC reports,
A team of 86 global scientists have sequenced the genetic code of the Golden Delicious apple for the [...]
As more and more people convert their lawns around their homes into food producing vegetable gardens, some cities haven’t changed their zoning codes to legally allow them as Graydon Megan reports for the Chicago Tribune,
A Northbrook, Illinois woman has found a better use for her front yard than a manicured lawn. She turned it into [...]
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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