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2010 Corvallis Youth Garden

August 31, 2010 Community Garden
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My Rant On Garden Rant

August 30, 2010 Environment

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… [...]

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Tour Of Some Community Gardens

August 30, 2010 Community Garden

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.

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GMO Apples In The Future As DNA Code Is Cracked By Geneticists

August 30, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

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 [...]

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Illegal Front Yard Veggie Garden

August 28, 2010 Environment

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 [...]

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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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Brooklyn Grange Urban Farm

August 26, 2010 Environment
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All Hat, No Cattle… Biotech Crops Increasing Without Slowdown

August 23, 2010 Environment

This cattle raising bozo informs us he hasn’t met a chemical that he doesn’t love and to shut up, open our mouths while he force feeds us to consume those shitty GMOs…
Keep trying to stop progress you anti-biotech fanatics. It won’t work! Those of us who support biotech and believe in its ability to improve [...]

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Industrial Agriculture

August 23, 2010 Environment

We hear it all the time; industrial agriculture flacks on the teevee boasting about “feeding the world.” Well, as we are seeing with the 550 million egg recall, and previous recalls on beef and other fresh produce items, what good is it producing all the food that they boast about if nobody can eat it? [...]

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GMO Roundup Ready Canola Evolves Into Vexing Weed

August 22, 2010 Environment

I read this article and scratch my head… they are basically saying, “it is nobody’s fault” that GMO Roundup Ready canola seed has jumped the borders of the fields where it was grown and is now considered a “noxious weed.” WTF? This will become the battle cry as GMO plants continue to spread out from [...]

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