Posts tagged gardening
Canadian Town Reverses Ruling On Front-Yard Garden
As the edible gardening movement continues, people in towns across the country and Canada turn to their front yards for more space to grow vegetables and fruit. City regulations and officials often thwart their efforts, but residents have been digging their feet in and fighting. Portland, Oregon changed its rules for building raised beds in parking strips after the media brought attention to a man who was ordered to remove his or pay a $180 fine.
A couple in Drummondville, Quebec, won a similar fight. The municipal council reversed its decision to condemn their front garden after 29,000 signatures were collected…
I can see the day coming when even your home garden is gonna be against the law.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
Animal-Free Fertilizers For Your Healthy Home Garden
Animals by-products of some type or another usually are a significant part of organic fertilizers. Some you are likely to find include blood meal, bone meal, fish emulsion, and of course, manure. Here are some vegan options…
Let’s Add A Little Dirt To Our Diet
In a hand sanitizer and triple-washed bagged salad world, increasing evidence suggests the huge rise in allergic and autoimmune disorders is partly due to our lack of exposure to microorganisms that once covered our food and us.
Flavor Is the Price of Tomatoes’ Scarlet Hue, Geneticists Say
A gene mutation was deliberately bred into almost all tomatoes because it made them uniformly red when ripe. Turns out, that gene plays an important role in producing the sugar and aromas that give tomatoes a good tomato-y flavor. Heirloom tomatoes and many wild species are often more flavorful because they do not have the uniform ripening mutation.
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yuck.. i’m glad i’ve been a vegetarian for almost 8 years of my life, that’s about half my life, and i’m only 17. someday i’ll be a vegan..
