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Gangsta Gardening with Ron Finley

April 9, 2013 by · Leave a Comment
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Ron Finley delivers some great one-liners in his Ted Talk presentation. “Plant some sh*t… get gangsta with it” being tops on the list. But his message is bigger than that. His movement of creating a food forest out of the food desert in South Central LA is simple and yet so very powerful — human [...]

You Are What You Eat

March 24, 2012 by · 1 Comment
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Methyl bromide has been the fumigant of choice for conventional, US strawberry growers.  Plastic row covers are installed and methyl bromide gas injected, sterilizing the soil, killing fungi, weed seeds, and every other living thing.  Studies show that fumigated fields yield 5 times more strawberries than non-fumigated fields.  It’s a lucrative business, for farmers and [...]

Victory Garden Bust

July 16, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
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Are the days of victory gardens gone? A recent news flurry surrounding misdemeanor charges for growing a front yard veggie garden have made me wonder.  Julie Bass of Oak Park, Michigan has built 5 raised beds where she grows typical kitchen garden produce: squash, tomatoes, corn, etc.  She has since been found to be non [...]

My I Garden

June 20, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
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Technology and garden design collide with the launch of iPhone app, iMyGarden.   Here our phone and plant addictions can both be satisfied.   Think of this as adult entertainment for the avid gardener.  Painting with plants, particularly bulbs, when maybe you have a bit of free time or need bulb buying inspiration. It’s nearly perfect [...]

Gardens to People

February 15, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
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Guerrilla gardening akin to a Burning Man art car and possibly inspiration for alternative topiary.  Limited only by imagination. The on-line magazine, Environmental Graffiti, provides insight into guerrilla gardening, stating, “…it’s an urban movement… sowing the seeds of subversive environmental pro-activism in the most beneficent of ways, brightening up our public spaces with the power of [...]

Where the Rubber Meets the Road

December 14, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
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No ordinary guerrilla gardener, Steve Wheen chronicles his efforts in an interview last April with UK’s Metro: “I’m a mad keen gardener but I live in a small flat without a garden,” said Mr Wheen, from Shoreditch, east London.  “I also wanted to make a point.  As a cyclist I find potholes a constant menace.  [...]

Managing Manure

December 1, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
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“It’s not often that a book inspires you to go out and shovel steaming piles of horse poop on a cold November afternoon. But that’s exactly what happened to me after reading Gene Logsdon’s Holy Shit, and I mean it as a resounding compliment to the author. I should note, of course, that it doesn’t [...]

Russel Crowe’s “My Botany Diary”

November 5, 2010 by · Leave a Comment
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Wow.  This is an interesting Vanity Fair article.  My Botany Diary, a Russell Crowe conversation captured, it seems, purely for entertainment.  Not the first R rated perspective on the world of plants I’ve read, but definitely the most crass.  However, behind the profanities and performance promotions, there does appear to be a genuine appreciation for [...]