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Radical Homemakers Become Femivore’s Dilemma

March 15, 2010 Farm/Garden Politics

Peggy Orenstein writes in The New York Times,
Four women I know — none of whom know one another — are building chicken coops in their backyards. It goes without saying that they already raise organic produce: my town, Berkeley, Calif., is the Vatican of locavorism, the high church of Alice Waters. Kitchen gardens are as [...]

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Seattle Urban Farm Company—Transforming The Seattle Urban Landscape With Edibles

March 14, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

Seattle Urban Farm Company hopes to create many new sites growing food in the urban metro area of Seattle. The collective farming and gardening experience of SUFC can establish a productive organic vegetable plot in a client’s urban yard. SUFC gives a thorough garden consultation, answering a clients’ questions and giving the client new ideas [...]

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Corvallis Local Foods

March 12, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

I am fortunate to live in the mid-Willamette Valley of Oregon. Fortunate in that, it is literally a bread basket of food. Someone did some research into what could be grown here and over 80% of the food consumed here could be grown here. Obviously tropical things like avocados, mangoes and bananas can’t, but most [...]

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Urban Agriculture: Multi-Dimensional Tools For Social Development In Poor Neighborhoods

March 12, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

For over 30 years, different urban agriculture (UA) experiments have been undertaken in Montreal (Quebec, Canada). The Community Gardening Program, managed by the City, and 6 collective gardens, managed by community organizations, are discussed in this report. These experiments have different objectives, including food security, socialization and education. Although these have changed over time, they [...]

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Add Mushrooms To Your Garden

March 12, 2010 Organics

Ken Litchfield writes in the Oakland Tribune,
Mushrooms make tasty and beautiful additions to your garden, building soil, and providing food, health and aesthetics.
Adding mushrooms to your garden is easy, fun and exciting to diversify your garden space to include edible, medicinal and beautiful mushrooms.
While the average person can easily be confused about how to identify [...]

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CDC Uses Shopper-Card Data To Trace Salmonella

March 12, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

David Mercer reports for The Associated Press,
As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time — the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they [...]

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Fewer Farms To Feed Bay Area Locavore’s Appetite

March 11, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

Justin Scheck reports in The Wall Street Journal,
Pocket-size farms have sprung up in cities around the Bay Area in recent years, part of a movement to bring consumers closer to the sources of food they buy.
But even as these small farms show up in urban neighborhoods, bringing with them a sense of a local agricultural [...]

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Triscuit Crackers Promotes Home Farming Movement

March 10, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

Pay attention the next time you have the late night munchies, reaching for the box of Triscuit crackers and start chowing down without looking closely. Four million packages of Original and Reduced-Fat Triscuit crackers will include cards with basil or dill herb seeds that can be planted directly into the ground.
The new campaign by Triscuit [...]

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In A Few Short Years, Organic Has Become The Norm

March 10, 2010 Compost

It was just a few short years ago that organic gardeners and growers were looked upon as freaks of nature in the gardening world. Miracle-Gro, Roundup and Peters were the norm on the shelves of garden sheds in most places. Now, those products are kept out of sight and usually shunned at the garden center. [...]

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Students See Growth Potential Of Aquaponic Tomatoes

March 10, 2010 Aquaponics

Zack Harold writes in the Charleston Daily Mail,
Winter is not a good time for fresh tomato lovers. You either chow down on hard hothouse tomatoes that taste like cardboard, or simply do without. And that last option isn’t much of an option at all.
Barbara Liedl, associate research professor at West Virginia State University, wants to [...]

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