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Whole Foods to Offer Garden Grants for Schools - Roswell, GA Patch

Seeded on Tue Aug 23, 2011 12:49 PM EDT ()

Seeded by IndependentAmerican2892850 (Clipped by ambivalent)

Growing young minds...

us-news, whole-foods-market, school-garden

Crittervision: What a dog's nose knows - 22 August 2011 - New Scientist

Seeded on Mon Aug 22, 2011 7:31 PM EDT (new scientist)

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Ever wondered how a dog, with a sense of smell that may be thousands of times more sensitive than ours, can bear to bury its face in the trash can? Alexandra Horowitz, a dog-cognition researcher at Columbia University in New York City and author of Inside of a Dog: What dogs see, …

science, brain-activity-in-dogs, dogs-sense-if-smell

It's Cabbage season-Did you make Halushki yet?

Mon Aug 22, 2011 11:02 AM EDT

By Vlad's dog

Halushki, cabbage and noodles in butter. A simple meal that has been a main stay in my family and my wife's family since we were little kids. Fresh sweet cabbage is now in season and Halushki is planned for our meal tonight, Yummy and simple to make.

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home-garden, simple-meals, cabbage-and-noodles, halushki

As Farmers' Markets Boom, Some See a Glut in the Making - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Sat Aug 20, 2011 6:37 PM EDT (The New York Times)

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John Spineti started selling plump tomatoes and shiny squash at farmers’ markets in the early 1970s and saw his profits boom as markets became more popular. But just as farmers’ markets have become mainstream, Mr.

food, farmers, fresh, eat-local, farm-market, support-farmer

At O'Hare Airport, Unused Land Is Going to the Bees and Giving Felons a Second Chance

Seeded on Fri Aug 19, 2011 1:31 PM EDT (good.is)

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That buzzing sound you hear at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport could be a jet taking off. Or maybe it's coming from the 1.5 million bees that call the airport home.

environment, not-news, international-airport, bee-project, helping-felons, making-honey

inuit knowledge and climate change

Seeded on Fri Aug 19, 2011 8:00 AM EDT (Late Show: Katy Perry - "Hot N Cold" - Bing Videos)

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I thought I would offer this documentary on the Inuits and their observations on climate changes. It is a very special movie, I hope you all enjoy it.

environment, climate-change, polar-bears, seals, ice-melt, inuit-knowledge, zacharias-kunuk

The Future of Food, Sprouting Under LED Lights

Seeded on Wed Aug 17, 2011 3:59 PM EDT (good.is)

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A warehouse full of LED lights and Dutch dudes may sound like the setting for a 1990s rave, but it may well be a prototype of the future of horticulture.

technology, world-hunger, led-lights, urban-agriculture, hydroponic-food, plant-lab

First life: The search for the first replicator

Seeded on Mon Aug 15, 2011 12:07 PM EDT (New Scientist)

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Life must have begun with a simple molecule that could reproduce itself – and now we think we know how to make one.

science, molecular-biology

At Vacant Homes, Foraging for Fruit -

Seeded on Mon Aug 15, 2011 6:02 AM EDT (The New York Times)

Seeded by ambivalent

"It doesn't matter if it's a neighbor's tree or a vacant lot or a foreclosure or whatever. It's you and that fruit tree right at that precise moment when the fruit is ready and you need to make something happen."

us-news, east-atlanta, urban-foraging