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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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Potting Soil Of The Gods

August 30, 2010 Environment

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 [...]

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Using The Ordinary To Cultivate The Mysterious Power Of Beneficial Indigenous Microorganisms

August 26, 2010 Compost

Lisa M. Hamilton reports on RodaleInstitute.org,
Like a cut-rate magician, Philippine farmer and scientist Gil Carandang teaches farmers how to use cheap vodka, generic brown sugar, milk, rice and local soil to harness local microorganisms as invisible workhorses on their farms.
Who wouldn’t be suspicious? Right from the get-go this workshop is promising cure-all concoctions that bring [...]

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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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Why Compost Tea Gets A Bad Name

August 22, 2010 Compost

Some scientists and college professors criticize and put down the use of aerated compost tea. Why? First they analyzed compost tea that was made with inferior brewers that didn’t aerate (inject oxygen) the brew enough. Then they analyzed tea that was brewed using inferior compost that had manure in it with the possibility of creating [...]

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Manure Provides Higher Returns Than Chemical Fertilizers, Economist Says

August 19, 2010 Compost

The supporters of industrial agri-business farming will not like this little tidbit but organic farming using animal manure makes is more profitable than chemical farming as reported on ScienceDaily.com,
No significant differences in corn yield were found between organic and chemical sources of nutrients, but a Texas AgriLife Research economist said manure generates higher economic returns [...]

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Cleveland’s Green Acre Plaza

August 14, 2010 Aquaponics

Will Allen’s Growing Power in Milwaukee, Wisc. is the model for urban farming that many are duplicating. Now, in Cleveland, Ohio, Green Acres Plaza is a planned 60,000 sq. ft. agricultural structure designed for production, distribution, and the processing of locally and regionally grown foods. From Green Acres Plaza’s web site,
Green Acres Plaza will serve [...]

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Deep vs Shallow Organic, And Why Gardeners Need To Know The Difference

August 14, 2010 Compost

Colleen Vanderlinden writes on the PlanetGreen.com site,
Eliot Coleman is an organic farmer, author, and agricultural innovator. He farms, year-round, in Maine, thanks to systems he’s developed for taking advantage of certain plants’ ability to grow even in the most frigid temperatures. In his latest book, The Winter Harvest Handbook (a fabulous read, by the way) [...]

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Feed the Soil, Not the Plants

August 8, 2010 Compost

Jared R. McKinley reports on the DrWeil.com News site,
The concept of organic gardening is NOT new. In fact, the use of chemical fertilizers and poisons are the new concepts, which really became the norm over the course of the twentieth century. Why did we start using such chemicals? To make a long story short, we [...]

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