It’s Not a Fairytale: Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest. Forget meadows.
The city’s new park will be filled with edible plants, and everything from pears to herbs will be free for the taking. Seattle’s vision of an urban food oasis is going forward. A seven-acre plot of land in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood will be planted with hundreds of different kinds of edibles: walnut and chestnut trees; blueberry and raspberry bushes; fruit trees, including apples and pears; exotics like pineapple, yuzu citrus, guava, persimmons, honeyberries, and lingonberries; herbs; and more. All will be available for public plucking to anyone who wanders into the city’s first food forest. Urban Greening May Reduce Crime Rates in Cities. Urban planning is not only important to the strategic design behind a city's infrastructure, but now one study finds that the landscaping itself which emphasizes urban greening and the introduction of well-maintained vegetation, can lower the rates of certain types of crime such as aggravated assault, robbery and burglary, in cities.
According to a Temple University study, "Does vegetation encourage or suppress urban crime? Evidence from Philadelphia, PA," researchers found that the presence of grass, trees and shrubs is associated with lower crime rates in Philadelphia. No Time to Grow Food? Company Will Plant a Garden for You. Farmyard, a Phoenix-based company, installs and helps maintain gardens for their clients.
Photo: Kathryn Sukalich, Earth911 You know that saying, ‘Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he’ll eat for a lifetime?’ This sentiment is pretty fitting for a new service available in the local food and gardening movement. Farmyard, a Phoenix-based company, has a unique business model that not only provides fresh, organic produce through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, but also visits the yards of those interested in growing their own food, helps install gardens and follows up to ensure clients are properly tending to their crops. Fukushima meltdown appears to have sickened American infants. Fallout from that Fukushima meltdown thing a couple years back?
It’s not just the Japanese who are suffering, though their plight is obviously the worst. Radioactive isotopes blasted from the failed reactors may have given kids born in Hawaii and along the American West Coast health disorders which, if left untreated, can lead to permanent mental and physical handicaps. Children born in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington between one week and 16 weeks after the meltdowns began in March 2011 were 28 percent more likely to suffer from congenital hypothyroidism than were kids born in those states during the same period one year earlier, a new study shows. In the rest of the U.S. during that period in 2011, where radioactive fallout was less severe, the risks actually decreased slightly compared with the year before.
Citywide Commercial Composting: Then and Now. Access to citywide commercial composting is still largely limited in the United States, but we’ve come a long way in recent years.
Composting now recovers more than 20 million tons of waste annually, according to the most recent EPA data available. In a recent report submitted to the EPA, the nonprofit research organization Econservation Institute identified more than 180 commercial and residential food scraps collection programs across the nation, in communities with populations less than 200 on up to ones with more than 600,000. Composting recovers more than 20 million tons of waste annually, according to the EPA. Food Forest Comes to Life in Seattle. Seattle’s vision of an urban food oasis is going forward.
A seven-acre plot of land in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood will be planted with hundreds of different kinds of edibles: walnut and chestnut trees; blueberry and raspberry bushes; fruit trees, including apples and pears; exotics like pineapple, yuzu citrus, guava, persimmons, honeyberries, and lingonberries; herbs; and more. All will be available for public plucking to anyone who wanders into the city’s first food forest. The Living Stage by Castlemaine State Festival. The Living Stage By Castlemaine State Festival Successfully funded on 08 March 2013 Payment portal is now closed Any questions about how Pozible works, check out the supporters FAQs.
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Let's take a quick look at some practical solutions that can empower individuals and local communities by returning to the land, as well as redefining what "returning to the land" really entails. There is exciting progress being made even in areas hardest hit by the current economic crisis.
Current agricultural techniques such as aquaponics and vertical farming have reduced the space that is required for self-sufficiency and are providing extremely cost-effective methods of food production. Andrew Brown. Noam Chomsky: Authentic Democracy Is Being Dismantled. States Ban 'Sustainability' and Hobbit Homes?! Climate Activist DeChristopher Barred From "Social Justice" Work.
20-foot URBAN FARMS : Compact, Versatile, Aquaponic Systems. How to Plant a Honey Bee Friendly Garden. In the winter of 2006 the honey bee population began to die out.
Since then, as much as 70% of some bee populations have died as a result of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Seventy farm grown crops, about one-third of our natural food supply, rely on honey bees for pollination. Imagine peanut better without jelly. If the honey bees disappear, so will the grapes and the strawberries, along with many of the other foods that have become not only favorites, but staples of the modern diet. You can help restore the honey bee population with a bee friendly garden. 6,000 lbs of food on 1/10th acre - Urban Farm - Urban Homestead - Growing Your Own Food.
Windowfarms - Vertical Garden for Growing Herbs and Vegetables at Home. Grow your own sack garden - Humanitarian Aid & Relief. Our staff in Chad have been teaching people living in refugee camps there how to grow sack gardens.
It’s a great way to improve a family’s diet by adding fresh vegetables with less water needed than a typical garden. Researchers suggest one can affect an atom's spin by adjusting the way it is measured. One of the most basic laws of quantum mechanics is that a system can be in more than one state – it can exist in multiple realities – at once. This phenomenon, known as the superposition principle, exists only so long as the system is not observed or measured in any way.
As soon as such a system is measured, its superposition collapses into a single state. Lucid Dreaming Tibetan Dream Yoga. This WordPress.com site is a Yoga Bijam. The Ananda Bija Way, Relating to Hatha Asana Padmasana This site is fully intended to address an alternative holistic approach to Yoga Sadhana. For our purposes to begin, let’s accept Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, since they are the most authoritative statement on Ashtanga Yoga.
From that basis alone I feel there’s much to consider about Yoga; Since the current perception seems to be that yoga means asana. So let’s first address an Ananda Bija approach to Hatha Yoga Asana.
September 2011. The Green Man, the foliate head, a composite of foliage and face, can often be found in West European churches and cathedrals, sometimes entirely made of leaves, often a face surrounded by leaves and/or vines. Sometimes hidden in dark corners, or high up in the ceiling, hardly visible from ground level. In pre-Christian mythology, he represents the vegetation, returning year after year, like the ebb and flow of nature, the spirit of the eternal cycle of nature and irrepressible life. The name ‘Green Man’ was first used by Lady Raglan, UK, in an article on folklore in 1939. There are at least four of them at Avioth. The first ‘recorded’ Green Man in a church dates from the sixth century: in Trier, Germany, the capitals of some columns from a Roman temple representing a Green Man were reused in the church replacing the temple.
Green Men are found throughout the Roman Empire but none of them seems to date from earlier than the first century. Avioth, another Green Man. Brenda Peterson: Killing With Sound: What Happens When the Whales Stop Singing? Close your eyes. Your world is now only sound -- the rain, the traffic, that far-off siren. In this acoustic world, how you navigate, find food, your children, or mate, all depends upon how well you hear. Imagine that as you search in the darkness for a crying child, a horrifying drone, loud as a rocket, suddenly blasts sound pulses like shockwaves through your home.
There are no noise-cancelling headphones to stop the U.S. The Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt. Juana Inés de la Cruz. Sister (Spanish: Sor) Juana Inés de la Cruz, O.S.H. (English: Joan Agnes of the Cross) (12 November 1651 – 17 April 1695), was a self-taught scholar and poet of the Baroque school, and Hieronymite nun of New Spain. Although she lived in a colonial era when Mexico was part of the Spanish Empire, she is considered today both a Mexican writer and a contributor to the Spanish Golden Age, and she stands at the beginning of the history of Mexican literature in the Spanish language. Early life[edit]
Watch Dreams That Money Can Buy, a Surrealist Film by Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder, Fernand Léger & Hans Richter. "Everybody dreams. 'Lights Have Entered Us': George Oppen's Words About Hope in Grief - Joe Fassler. Five lines of a George Oppen poem about bereavement continually amaze Jeffrey Yang, the author of An Aquarium and Vanishing-Line—and even connected him to a fellow poet. Doug McLean. The Poor People's Solution to Creating Police Accountability In Chattanooga. A Concerted Effort To Help the Homeless Move Into and Fix Up Abandoned Properties. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!