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Department of Neighborhoods. 2013-14 Brings Emergency Hubs to P-Patch's Seattle Channel Video The Office of Emergency Management (OEM) and Seattle Department of Neighborhoods (DON) were awarded $35,000 from the FEMA Community Resilience Innovation Challenge.

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The cash award will establish Community Emergency Hubs* in selected P-Patch community gardens in southeast Seattle, along with emergency preparedness training for gardeners and community members. Of the more than 80 P-Patch community gardens located across Seattle, OEM and DON P-Patch Community Gardening Program will focus on 8-12 P-Patch gardens. Serving approximately 350 gardening families, the languages spoken and cultures shared include Amharic, Filipino, Somali, Tigrinya, Chinese, English, Hmong, Mien, Lao, Thai, Vietnamese, and Spanish. * Hubs are pre-determined meeting locations by the community to share information, resources, problem-solve and support one another following an emergency.

Cornell Cooperative Extension. Plant Hardiness Zone Map. Monthly Garden Calendars. How to Set Multiple Traps to Catch the Spotted Drosophila Fly Soaker hoses for everything Produced by OSU Extension, each month provides reminders of key garden chores, such as fertilizing, pest control, planting, and maintenance.

Monthly Garden Calendars

Recommendations in this calendar are not necessarily applicable to all areas of Oregon. For more information, contact your local Extension office. Sustainable gardening The Oregon State University Extension Service encourages sustainable gardening practices. Preventative pest management is emphasized over reactive pest control. Use chemical controls only when necessary and only after thoroughly reading the pesticide label.

Planning Write in your garden journal throughout the growing season. Maintenance and Clean Up Allow foliage of spring-flowering bulbs to brown and die down before removing. Planting/Propagation Plant gladioli, hardy transplants of alyssum, phlox, and marigolds, if weather and soil conditions permit. Pest Monitoring and Management. Plant Finder. Plantwire. The National Vegetable Society, advancing the culture, study and improvement of vegetables. Plants For A Future : 7000 Edible, Medicinal & Useful Plants. Small veggie plots, big rewards. Growing Your Own Garlic - Planting Growing Harvesting and Storing Garlic.

As far as I'm concerned, garlic gets the blue ribbon for growing your own.

Growing Your Own Garlic - Planting Growing Harvesting and Storing Garlic

It's absurdly easy to plant and care for; it tastes great; it looks beautiful and it takes up so little ground that even those with very small gardens can raise enough to be self-sufficient in garlic for a good part of the year. All you have to do is choose the right varieties; plant at the right time, in the right soil; then harvest when just right and store correctly. 1. Choosing Types of Garlic If you look in a specialist catalog like the one at Gourmet Garlic Gardens, you'll find dozens of varieties of garlic listed.

You see where this is going – and you can see a lot more types of garlic on either of those websites, but for general purposes the most important difference is the one between softneck and hardneck. Softnecks are so called because the whole green plant dies down to pliancy, leaving nothing but the bulb and flexible stems that are easy to braid. Gardeners in most of the U.S. can try some of both. Vertical Farms. The current 3.3 billion global urban population is expected to grow to 5 billion by 2025...

Vertical Farms

Today our agricultural footprint is the size of South America...what will it be tomorrow... Source EDITT Tower (“Ecological Design In The Tropics”) is being built in Singapore with the financial support of the National University. The 26 story tower will have over half its surface area covered by organic local vegetation. Solar panels will generate up to 40% of the building’s energy demands, and human waste will also be converted into an energy source via an on-site bio-gas facility. Source Mithun Architects in Seattle designed a "Center for Urban Agriculture" -- an integration of crops and livestock onto a 7.2 acre urban plot. Buckminster Fuller Challenge Clepsydra Urban Farm by Bruno Viganò & Florencia Costa. Source. Blue Thumb. How to build My 50 Dollar Greenhouse. First off – you really can build this thing very cheaply, but to do so you have to recycle, freecycle, and scrounge.

How to build My 50 Dollar Greenhouse

If you just go out and buy new everything it will probably cost over $200 – still not bad all in all.This Article is featured in Jan 2010 issue of Birds and Blooms Magazine! Want to find out if this thing works before you read all this? Read 6 months in the Greenhouse first.Want to see what happens when a few inches of wet snow accumulates on this? Collapse! Building the Greenhouse Doors is addressed in a separate article – isn’t this enough for one weekend? My $50 Greenhouse Welcome Stumbleupon Gardeners! Materials list Construction Steps Hind Sight – What I would do differently The planning is over and construction on my hoop house greenhouse has begun. After some research I’ve decided to build the structure of the hoop house out of 20 ft. joints of three quarter inch PVC plumbing pipe. If your Greenhouse is too Flat it will collapse! How to Build the $50 Hoop House. Square Foot Gardening Foundation.

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