Slow Food International - Good, Clean and Fair food. Small West Yorkshire town aims to be first town with food self-sufficiency by growing all its own vegetables. (NaturalNews) Different local authorities throughout the USA have been harassing homeowners for growing veggies or herbs in their front lawns.
Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult. Barbara Stanwyck: "We're both rotten!
" Fred MacMurray: "Yeah - only you're a little more rotten. " -"Double Indemnity" (1944) Those lines of dialogue from a classic film noir sum up the state of the two political parties in contemporary America. Both parties are rotten - how could they not be, given the complete infestation of the political system by corporate money on a scale that now requires a presidential candidate to raise upwards of a billion dollars to be competitive in the general election? Both parties are captives to corporate loot.
Localblu.com. Filenames. Cool Buildings. Straw bale workshops, Earthship tours, green living at Blue Rock Station. Recycled plastic bottle sheds. Make Your Own Plastic Bottle Greenhouse - Making Your Own. Author: Lucy Debenham BA (hons) - Updated: 30 November 2012| Comment So why on earth would you want to make your own greenhouse out of plastic bottles?
Well, we all know that the British weather can be less than reliable. So for green-fingered Brits, a greenhouse tends to be a vital piece of kit if you want your growing endeavours to prove successful. And although the price of a greenhouse has become more affordable in recent years, they can still be expensive to maintain. There's also the issue of the environmental cost of manufacturing and producing a greenhouse kit. My plastic bottle greenhouse. First off I bought the "plastic fantastic" booklet from Earthship Fyfe (see link below).
I then set about collecting the parts together, namely : Fenceposts, reasonably thick wire, and of course empty 2 litre plastic bottles. For this I turned to Freegle, and after 6 months I had a garage full of bin liners of plastic bottles, some fence posts, and I bought some garden wire from ebay and Wilkos. Whilst I was still collecting bottles I started to process what I had, which involved taking the labels off the bottles, cutting off the bottoms and stacking them together. I stacked most them in 3's initially as they then fitted back into the bin liners nicely, but some went on bamboo canes in my garden to see how they would fare over the winter. The actual construction started once the really cold weather stopped and I was happy to be working outside. How-To plastic bottle green house build guide ! Flojak Hand Well Pump - Backup Hand Pump for Well.
Demythologizing American Exceptionalism. Our conservative Christians (identical these days with the Republican Party) are all about American Exceptionalism; they like to talk about America as a divinely ordained nation, chosen by God to be special, as Israel was once special, a vehicle for his divine plan (whatever that might be).
Witness Tom DeLay back in ’08: I know that America was created by God and it was created by God, not for wealth, personal wealth. It wasn’t created by God so that we would have the resources that we now have. It wasn’t even created by God to have the freedom that we have now. America was created by God to spread the Gospel; to spread the word of Jesus Christ and to propagate Christianity. Or Rep. Sali says America was built on Christian principles that were derived from scripture. The mythical shining city on a hill.
Green Businesses. Oregon farms press forward on organic seeds. Corn variety trials at Gathering Together Farm A handful of Oregon farmers are teaming up with Oregon State University as part of a nationwide effort to broaden the availability of organic seeds.
Responding to new pressure from organic food certifiers, the effort is aimed at testing new seed varieties on organic farms in hopes of luring companies to produce the seed commercially. Seed Companies - Seeds and plants for gardens - Safe Seed Pledge. All these companies have signed the Safe Seed Pledge.
A listing of other companies that have signed the pledge is available at Gene-Watch Org . Agriculture and seeds provide the basis upon which our lives depend. We must protect this foundation as a safe and genetically stable source for future generations. For the benefit of all farmers, gardeners and consumers who want an alternative, we pledge that we do not knowingly buy or sell genetically engineered seeds or plants.
The mechanical transfer of genetic material outside of natural reproductive methods and between genera, families or kingdoms, poses great biological risks as well as economic, political, and cultural threats. Organic Partners International. Sustainable Oregon. At Oregon Sugar Beet Seed Farms, It's Organic Agriculture Vs. Genetic Engineering. The Cold War phrase "peaceful coexistence" has been revived in a new context: as a potential solution in the clash between organic agriculture and genetic engineering.
This agricultural battle is global in scope, but one place where the tension is most tangible — and where its consequences are most concrete — is the valley along Oregon's Willamette River. hide caption"This valley is not big enough to have genetically engineered crops and normal crops growing together without cross contamination happening," says Frank Morton, an organic farmer who grows Swiss chard for seed. Dan Charles for NPR "This valley is not big enough to have genetically engineered crops and normal crops growing together without cross contamination happening," says Frank Morton, an organic farmer who grows Swiss chard for seed.
Oregon's organic farmers fight genetically modified seeds. Food Not Lawns International. American Grass Seed Producers, Inc. Home. We are outside Oregon City, in Beavercreek, 20 miles from Portland, Oregon.
Our farm is dedicated to providing the most sustainable, amazingly fresh, humanely, all pasture raised, breeding stock, heritage meats, eggs, and heirloom seeds to the Portland, Oregon and the surrounding areas. Farm To Friends Country Markets. Azure Standard - Quality Bulk & Natural Foods. Home Page.