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Join the Revolution in your own Backyard - Grow your Own Food

Now is the time to start growing your own food garden. This is the place to learn the secrets of how to grow healthy food and lots of it.

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Notes from the Field

Winter Storms Busting Road Salt Budget in Charleston Area (WSAZ NewsChannel 3 West Virginia)

This winter's snow and ice have landed a serious blow to the bottom line in the Charleston area.

City of Huntington Cracking Down on Delinquent Fee Offenders (WSAZ NewsChannel 3 West Virginia)

The city of Huntington is cracking down on folks who are late with their municipal and refuse fees.

Farming in your own backyard with Grower's Workshop (NBC 12 Richmond)

GOOCHLAND, VA (WWBT) - Do you want to take your backyard garden to the next level? Raising your own chickens might be the next step. Want your own fresh eggs every day? It's possible if you have enough room, you are willing to work and if you like to learn.

El Cerrito, Richmond: Compost those food scraps, don't dump it (Contra Costa Times)

From egg shells to broccoli stumps, food scraps in El Cerrito and Richmond are headed somewhere other than the trash heap this summer. The cities will roll out a curbside composting program as early as July.    My Town: Richmond

Rock 'N' Roll Ribs in Coral Springs Conjures the Backyard Barbecue With Tasty Results (Broward-Palm Beach New Times)

I barely even have to chew," my friend Jeffrey said, pausing for a moment from sucking sticky-sweet barbecue sauce off the business end of a baby back rib. "They fall right off the bone." He and I and about a dozen of my friends were hovering over aluminum trays outfitted with racks of the smoked...

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Churches Active In Northside We are a neighborhood Choice Food Pantry hoping to increase our fresh food offerings by gardening, gleaning and take home garden kits.
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Tom Mallard Maize Zea and Purple Maize in the ground today along with big patches of onions, leeks, beans & peas ... first plantings sprouted well
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Thank you for this, I'm new and do not know how to do any of this
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Tom Mallard We got some rain, last year was under 4", no real groundwater recharge yet, planting fresh veggies, purple maize ...
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Tom Mallard commented on Tom Mallard's blog post 'Feral cats --- Poopers'
Right on Marcello, trying them but I think that there are just too many cats here, I see 10-12 daily, hoops are working good, keeping the soil damp helps, best so far was semi-composted kitchen garbage, there was a banana in that batch ... catching…
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marcelo severo commented on Tom Mallard's blog post 'Feral cats --- Poopers'
ground pepper and chili sprinkled around the borders works well... or catch them in traps and eat them or turn them into soap..
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Sue B.

Disappointing field test yields cause Pioneer Hi-Bred to delay release of newest generations of GMO corn.

Pioneer Hi-Bred said Friday that disappointing yields in field tests will cause it to delay the release of the newest generations of herbicide-resistant corn seed to about 2015. Read the full article here.

Posted by Sue B. on December 5, 2009 at 5:56pm

Tom Mallard

Feral cats --- Poopers

As a downtown Phoenix resident I have plenty of feral cats that use the landscaping rocks for kitty litter, but also like freshly dug soil so I can't grow food yet.

Plan A is raised bed with chicken wire but that's a lot of expense so I was after other ways of discouraging the cats if anyone has dealt with this before.

Posted by Tom Mallard on December 5, 2009 at 9:39am — 4 Comments

Monte Smith

The Personal Evaluation of Data and some additional thoughts

In today's world where we practically have instant access to almost any information we might desire, as well as being constantly bombarded with information that we have no interest in, it seems that we often overlook an important point. That point being that the bulk of the information we ask for or that we don't ask for, but is pushed onto us anyway, is in one manner or another packaged with pre-evaluations. That is to say, that the data we receive comes tagged as being good, bad, interesting,… Continue

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Monte Smith

Introducing Winston Kao (pronounced Gow)

Hello everyone,

I want to introduce you to a friend of mine. His name is Winston Kao. I've known Winston now for almost fifteen years and I can tell you that he is a straight shooter. He's an agriculture inventor/scientist and he knows his stuff. And you can rest assured that if he is telling you something that he has researched it thoroughly and it's data you can take to the bank. However, please do not take this to mean that I think you should just accept, without personal inspection and eval… Continue

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Petition to require lables on GMO food

I came across this petition that is asking that all GMO foods be labeled. Thought it would interest everyone.

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/require-foods-to-list-genetically-altered-ingredients.html

Posted by chris lee on August 12, 2009 at 9:31pm

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The Edible Classroom

Our online gardening class is happening in the Edible Classroom. Check your email for your lesson each week.

We have put together an excellent group of gardening experts to help you grow more food than you ever dreamed possible. The course is designed for you to follow along in your own garden, and will walk you, step-by-step, to the process of growing more food than you ever dreamed possible. It's easy, it's fun, and it's FREE. So stay tuned and let's plant some seeds!

You will need to be a registered member of One Million Gardens to participate in the live webinar. Once the class has been posted in the Edible Classroom, anyone will be able to review it and repeat any lessons at your own pace.

Our 10-week course covers the following:

LESSONS

1. Why you need to plant a garden...
- History, big picture, economy and health
- loss of seeds / biodiversity
- exploring food and culture in the garden

2. Making a garden plan
- creating a gardening journal
- crop selection & worthwhile varieties
- overview of the garden year
- size / amount of seedlings, space, etc
- heirloom, open-pollinated vs. hybrid and GMO's

3. bed preparation
- chart
- tools
- process
- seasons and crop selection
- growing soil

4. Seed Propagation
- seed selection
- flats
- transplanting (general)
- moon planting
- watering seedlings
- weeding

5. Growing and Caring for...
- Vegetables
- Flowers and Herbs
- special crops

6. Composting
- compost recipes and proceedures
- vermaculture / worm box

7. General Gardening Planting and Maintenance
- Companion Planting
- Beneficial herbs and plants
- Weed Control
- Pest Control
- Crop Rotation

8. Harvesting
- marking for seed saving
- best time to harvest

9. Seed Saving & storage
- harvesting
- cleaning
- storage

10. The next generation
- kids, community and gardening...
 
 

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